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ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATO APPOINTMENTS. turner.philip@hq.nato.int. Mr. Philip Turner NATO Manpower Policy International Military Staff/ HQ NATO. ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATO APPOINTMENTS. STANDARD LANGUAGE PROFILE (SLP) LEVELS. Level 1 – Survival Level 2 – Functional

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  1. ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATO APPOINTMENTS turner.philip@hq.nato.int Mr. Philip Turner NATO Manpower Policy International Military Staff/ HQ NATO NATO UNCLASSIFIED

  2. ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATO APPOINTMENTS NATO UNCLASSIFIED

  3. STANDARD LANGUAGE PROFILE (SLP) LEVELS • Level 1 – Survival • Level 2 – Functional • Level 3 – Professional • Level 4 – Expert • Level 5 – Highly Articulate Native Speaker NATO UNCLASSIFIED

  4. ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATO APPOINTMENTS FACTORS • The SLP requirements for NATO posts are set without expert scrutiny. • STANAG 6001 is not non-specialist user- friendly. • SLP Level 5 is redundant. • Achieving SLP Levels 3 and 4 is not easy. NATO UNCLASSIFIED

  5. ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATO APPOINTMENTS LANGUAGE NEEDS ANALYSIS OF CE POSTS • All posts at Level 1 required less language ability than requested by the JD. • 70% of the JDs requiring SLPs in the Level 2 range were considered ‘high’ • The majority of JDs for posts required Level 3 SLPs. Only 42% of these SLPs were considered appropriate. • Only 51% of the profiles at 4343 were considered to have tasks at that leve.l • Only 1% of the JDs had SLPs of 4444. 75% of these were considered appropriate. NATO UNCLASSIFIED

  6. STATED SLP REQUIREMENTS IN NATO JDs – MAY 2010 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

  7. SLP REQTS IN NATO JDs – IMS JUN 2013 NATO UNCLASSIFIED

  8. ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS IN NATO JOB DESCRIPTIONS NATO UNCLASSIFIED

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  10. ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS FOR NATO APPOINTMENTS QUESTIONS? NATO UNCLASSIFIED

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