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DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER 20160322 DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CENTER Agenda Mission, Vision, and Values DLIFLC Overview and Profile Current Focus and Way Ahead Worldwide Presence 2

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Agenda

  • Mission, Vision, and Values
  • DLIFLC Overview and Profile
  • Current Focus and Way Ahead
  • Worldwide Presence

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Dynamic & Revolutionary Learning Environment

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  • Mission, Vision, and Values
  • DLIFLC Overview and Profile
  • Current Focus and Way Ahead
  • Worldwide Presence

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Mission, Vision, and Values

Our mission is to provide culturally based foreign language education, training, evaluation and sustainment to enhance the security of the nation. Our vision is to deliver the world's best culturally based foreign language education and training – at the point of need.

Mission Vision

We hold ourselves and others accountable for the following values: Commitment - We are committed to our students, employees, stakeholders, life-long learning, and institutional excellence. Adaptability – We promote flexibility and drive innovative change as individuals and as an institution. Integrity - We expect personal and professional integrity. Respect – We honor our cultural and social diversity by treating others with dignity and respect.

Values

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Core Competencies

linguist

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Cycle of Excellence

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  • Mission, Vision, and Values
  • DLIFLC Overview and Profile
  • Current Focus and Way Ahead
  • Worldwide Presence

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Linguistic Readiness

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ARMY MARINES NAVY AIR FORCE

35%

10% 17%

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Undergraduate Student Profile

  • ~ 3,500 multi-service
  • 66% - under age 25
  • 99% - high school graduates
  • 17% - college graduates
  • 6% - officers
  • 71% male population
  • 29% female population
  • 87% - students will support intelligence

missions

  • Schedule: 5 days/week, 6+ hrs

per day, 2-3 hrs homework

12,300 AA degrees awarded since 2002 38%

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  • Title 10 Department of the Army civilian faculty
  • 95% native speakers: 16% Ph.D., 56% M.A., 25% B.A

Faculty Profile

Title 10 DA civilian faculty – Faculty Personnel System allows for flexibility

with the surge and dips in language training requirements

  • DLI-Washington: Contract faculty

provide flexibility and surge capacity

  • In-house faculty training programs
  • Professional development
  • pportunities through local and

regional higher educational institutions

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Faculty Profile

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DLIFLC Languages

Category IV

Modern Standard Arabic Arabic - Egyptian Arabic – Sudanese Arabic - Levantine Arabic - Iraqi Chinese Mandarin Korean Japanese Pashto

Category III

Persian Farsi Russian Urdu Hebrew Tagalog

Category II

Indonesian

Category I

Spanish French

Course Lengths CAT I – 26 Weeks CAT II – 35 Weeks CAT III – 48 Weeks CAT IV – 64 Weeks

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DLIFLC Languages

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Agenda

  • Mission, Vision, and Values
  • DLIFLC Overview and Profile
  • Current Focus and Way Ahead
  • Worldwide Footprint

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2+ Overview

  • What: 76% 2+/2+/1+

(Academic Production Rate - excludes admin attrition)

  • When: By 2022
  • How: Incrementally, increasing by an

identified % annually at L2+/R2+ by 2022

  • Who: All DLI students
  • Why: Increasing complexity of DoD language

needs requiring 3/3 abilities

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Instructors

  • Provide excellence in instruction
  • Professional development (Master Teacher)
  • Hire the best, retain the best
  • Evolve curricula – not more of the same
  • Student-centered learning

Students

  • Recruit the best - no DLAB waivers
  • Match language to skills and desires
  • Ensure student readiness
  • Increase immersion opportunities
  • Provide post-DLPT training

Getting to 2+/2+/1+

FY15 Academic Production Rate

2/2 2+/2+ 3/3 75.8% 35.9% 11.7%

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Getting to 2+/2+/1+

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Immersion Programs

OCONUS

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Local Immersions

  • 2006 - dedicated Immersion

facility at Ord Military Community

  • Immersions conducted twice per

language program

  • Initiated August 2005
  • 20+ countries/regions
  • more than 3,000 + participants
  • 70%+ for Arabic, Chinese, Korean

Students who participate in immersions gain significantly higher levels of proficiency with far less attrition

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Immersion Programs

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Agenda

  • Mission, Vision, and Values
  • DLIFLC Overview and Profile
  • Current Focus and Way Ahead
  • Worldwide Presence

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Worldwide Presence

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Worldwide Presence

As of April 1, 2016

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  • Quality continuing education for 44,000 language professionals
  • Language and culture materials for any learner
  • Command Language Program

Non-resident Instruction

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Military Language Professionals

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Non-resident Instruction

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Online Resources

Majority of products are open to the public

  • DLIFLC postured to support Nation’s language needs
  • Rapport – 6-8 hrs. language & culture trng.
  • HeadStart2 - 80-100 hrs. trng. - 32 languages
  • Language Survival Kits - 93 languages
  • Sustainment materials
  • Cultural Orientation - 95
  • Countries in Perspective - 75
  • GLOSS - 40 languages
  • ODA - (diagnostic) -18 languages
  • Mobile Aps
  • iTunes
  • Google Play
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Linguistic Testing

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  • 1st DLPT5 deployed: Dec 2005
  • DLPT examinees per year = ~ 62,000
  • OPI examinees per year = ~ 15,000
  • Languages tested = 120 (60 DLPT/ 60 OPI)

Linguistic Testing

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After DLIFLC