IDENTIFIERS *Workplace Literacy

Drawing upon published research, reports, and critical analyses, this paper examines the major issues involved in helping private business and industry face the challenge of effestively training limited-English-proficient (LEP) employees. The literature review is part of a larger project that is developing nine demonstration private industry/education partnership programs in industry-based bilingual vocational training and a handbook to help start other industry-based programs. Material reviewed in the paper is limited to that answering the general question, "What do we need to know to provide the best assistance and to develop a handbook?" The paper examines six major topics, drawn from a preliminary analysis of the existing literature as it reflects the project's anticipated needs: (1) workplace literacy and its relationship to bilingual vocational training; (2) job-related language skil