Second language skills for all? : analyzing a proposed language requirement for U.S. Air Force officers /

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Would it be feasible to require all Air Force officers to attain a specific level of proficiency in a second language at commissioning? Would there be unintended consequences? To find out, the authors asked Air Force officers about their own language-learning experiences, what they thought about lan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hardison, Chaitra M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2012.
Colección:Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-1189-AF.
Temas:
United States. > Air Force > Officers > Training of.
États-Unis. > Air Force > Officiers > Formation.
United States. > Air Force.
Second language acquisition.
Communicative competence > United States.
Langue seconde > Acquisition.
EDUCATION > Multicultural Education.
Armed Forces > Officers > Training of.
Communicative competence.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Increasing the language proficiency of incoming Air Force officers
  • RAND's study
  • Organization of the report
  • Background on adult language learning
  • Measuring language proficiency
  • Categories of difficulty
  • The supply of language expertise
  • Individual differences among language learners
  • Educational programs designed to achieve high levels of proficiency
  • After language learning: attrition and maintenance
  • Implications
  • Survey of Air Force officers
  • Survey sample
  • Survey content
  • Survey results
  • Language skills among Air Force officers
  • Language learning experiences
  • Relationships between language skills and other desirable outcomes
  • Mandatory proficiency policies
  • Incentives and disincentives for learning a second language
  • Open-ended responses
  • Conclusions and recommendations
  • Conclusions
  • Recommendations
  • Immediate next steps
  • Closing comment
  • A. Descriptions of the ILR proficiency levels
  • B. List of language flagship programs
  • Screenshots of the survey
  • Language courses at ROTC detachments
  • E. Additional details on "other" and open-ended responses.

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