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Language Competence Building for Military Personnel: A Stakeholder's Perspective

Explore the challenges and strategies of teaching foreign languages in military contexts, focusing on the Jordan Armed Forces Language Institute. Topics include interactive approaches, testing processes, and building language competence for soldiers. Learn about the importance of language training in the military and how it can affect military operations.

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Language Competence Building for Military Personnel: A Stakeholder's Perspective

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  1. 2019 BILC conference “ From the classroom to the Boots-on- the ground : The Stakeholders’ perspective” • JORDAN ARMED FORCES • LANGUAGE INSTITUTE • (JAFLI) Maj. AbdallahMigdadi Jordan Armed Forces Tartu, Estonis, May 2019

  2. Outline • JAFLI structure and tasks • Introduction • Issues that face language military students • The Interactive approach( communicative classrooms) • Lines of language competence building

  3. JORDAN ARMED FORCES LANGUAGE INSTITUTE (JAFLI) • English department • (ALC \ ESPC \ TOFLE pre \ TTC \ translation ) • Foreign languages department • (French \ Germany \ Spanish \ Hebrew \ Greek \ Chinese \ Turkish \ Arabic for non-speakers ) • Testing department

  4. Courses held in JAFLI this year

  5. Introduction • Why do military personnel need a foreign language ? • Why do military forces need a common language ? • What are the problems that face military language students ? • what is the communicative approach ?

  6. Issues that face military language students 1- lack of motivations

  7. 4- Rank interference 5- military personality and toughness

  8. 2- language Sustainability and practice 3- language appropriateness

  9. Other issues • Number of students per class • Age gap among the students • Time limitation • lack of appropriate material • Test oriented classes

  10. The Interactive approach ( communicative classrooms) Based and characterized by interaction between teachers and students “ Tell me and I ‟ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I‟ll understand. Chinese proverb

  11. Testing Military Personnel

  12. Lines of language competence building • First line of language competence building: (long term preparation ) • Recruitment precondition • Promotion and occupational condition • Periodically language publications and in-unite training • Second line of language competence building : ( mid term training ) • General and basic Language courses whenever its possible ( at least 6 months of period ) • Exchange programs with the foreign language speaking country • Third line of language competence building : ( short term training ) • Flash refreshment courses • Pre-deployment language courses • English for specific purpose courses

  13. Thank you for your patience

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