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FLO Enhancement Program (FEP)

FLO Enhancement Program (FEP). FEP. Program Goal: Minimizing the mission readiness gap between the DLI graduate and the linguist in the field. Future Challenges. Understanding the Job Instantly recognize and accurately translate imperfect written and oral passages

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FLO Enhancement Program (FEP)

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  1. FLO Enhancement Program(FEP)

  2. FEP Program Goal: Minimizing the mission readiness gap between the DLI graduate and the linguist in the field

  3. Future Challenges • Understanding the Job • Instantly recognize and accurately translate imperfect written and oral passages • Often little or no reference material, native help, or the speaker/writer present for clarification • Utilize analytical and deductive reasoning skills to predict/explain happenings or fill-in missing information • Deal quickly and effectively with random, disjointed, widely varied topics, accents, culture specific references, and slang • Often including profanity and “improper” speech • Perform at this level with no margin for error

  4. Future Challenges (cont.) • Perform in hostile environments (uncooperative natives), interpret intent • Perform in different contexts (refugee camp vs. embassy) • Perform different tasks (unfamiliar, not canned situations) • Solve problems, find motives, persuade • Take notes, summarize, make recommendation based on an overheard conversation

  5. Addressing Future Challenges • FEP/Enhanced FLO Activities (EFAs) meet the challenge: • Methodologically sound language learning strategies (teaching vs. testing) • Power packed high-level audio selections: • Tangentially job related • Imperfect quality • Multiple speakers • Colloquial speech • Student-centered activities utilizing multiple active skills • Grammar and structure • Geography/map usage • Target language research/Social Media • Reporting

  6. Performance and ProficiencyFLOs and DLPT Symbiotic relationship through text analysis: - Authentic materials - Problem solving - Critical thinking - Developing strategies - Processing extended discourse - Cultural knowledge - Contextualization - Exposure to pragmatics…

  7. Program Accomplishments: Gen 1 EFAs Generation 1 EFAs • Training: hands on training in schools weekly • Development: up to 800 EFAs in 18 languages and dialects by DLI faculty • Implementation: ongoing • Challenges: transfer from ScribeZone to WorkFLO

  8. Program Accomplishments: Gen 2 EFAs Generation 2 EFAs • Training: 3 orientation sessions by FEP for NFLC; training DLI faculty • Development: 1,495 EFAs (voice and graphic), in 23 languages and dialects developed through December 2013 by NFLC (minimum 65 per language) • Implementation: pending TL review and modification • Challenges: shortage of faculty members in certain languages to review and modify EFAs

  9. Program Accomplishments: Gen 3 EFAs Generation 3 EFAs • Training: 2 orientation sessions by FEP for NFLC; training DLI faculty • Development: 1,300 EFAs (voice and graphic), in 22 languages and dialects will be developed through June 2014 by NFLC; up to 450 already delivered and undergoing review • Implementation: pending upon the receipt and review of all Gen 3 EFAs • Challenges: processing materials with limited resources

  10. Demo • Voice EFA • Graphic EFA

  11. FEP Questions/Comments

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