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Working It Out: Esl Literacy Skills, Strategies, And Systems In The Workplace, Mary Louise Cohn
Working It Out: Esl Literacy Skills, Strategies, And Systems In The Workplace, Mary Louise Cohn
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This study investigates the strategies and resources a group of non-native English speakers with limited reading ability use to fulfill literacy functions work. The nineteen study subjects are employed as production workers in a large electronics manufacturing company. Using in-depth interview data, limited testing and document analysis, the study addresses three major research questions: 1) For what functions are reading and writing actually used in the workplace? What level of reading and writing do these functions assume? 2) How do these literacy functions relate to the rest of the work system? 3) How do limited readers fulfill these literacy functions? …