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Meeting Customers' Language Requirements

Meeting Customers' Language Requirements. BILC Conference 2006 Budapest, Hungary Herbert Walinsky, Bundessprachenamt. Our Customers and their Needs. Variety of customers Military Civilian Language levels Prerequisites Goals. General Goals.

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Meeting Customers' Language Requirements

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  1. Meeting Customers' Language Requirements BILC Conference 2006 Budapest, Hungary Herbert Walinsky, Bundessprachenamt

  2. Our Customers and their Needs • Variety of customers • Military • Civilian • Language levels • Prerequisites • Goals

  3. General Goals • Optimal trainingwhat's needed, when it's needed,for as long as it's needed • Shortest possible time, minimum expense

  4. Some Approaches to meeting Customers' Needs

  5. SLP courses with customer-oriented LSP elements • mid to high SLP requirement • low SLP requirement

  6. Non-SLP LSP courses • mid to high SLP prerequisite • 0 or low SLP prerequisite

  7. The Lockheed P 3 Orion aircraft

  8. Technicians at work

  9. Factors Determining Future Requirements -- 2002 vs. 2006 • Student availability • Specific language needs • Budgetary restrictions

  10. Meeting future requirements 2002 vs. 2006 • Centralization • Courses • Teacher training • Materials development • Testing

  11. Centralization • Greater flexibility • Common standards- Hiring policy & procedures- Teacher training- Language instruction- Testing & examiner training

  12. Courses – and beyond • Teletutoring pilot project • "Mini-courses" • Other

  13. Learning by doing Students from the UAR improve their German by introducing their home country to visitors from a local school.

  14. Teacher Training

  15. Specialized Language Training Weapons-systemspecific Specialized and job-specific Service or branch-specific working language General, Non service-specific job-related Military working language

  16. Degrees of specialization General Military Working Language Specialized and job-specificin authentic context Service and / or branch-specific General Language e.g. Weapons-system specific

  17. Materials development for specialized language • Military familiarization • Survival materials

  18. Interactive learning materials held high! Mr. Hakim, shown admiring the "Kombi-Campus" CD for level 1.3 in English in the "hand" of the remote-controlled TEODor mine-clearing vehicle, has since completed the interactive survival trainer for Dari.

  19. The multimedia package for Swahili with CD-ROM and survival phrasebook

  20. Topic areas in interactive survival programs:

  21. Dari

  22. Language Testing • Administration & evaluation: MC tests • Multi-level oral and written exams • Comprehensive examination guidelines • Examiner training seminars

  23. Some customers don't need specialized language training.

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