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Defense Language Institute Th e Czech Republic. With books many people can become learned even outside a school. Without books nobody can be learned nor inside a school. BILC May 14 , 20 12. Outline. Jan Amos Komenský Teaching and learning linguistic pitfalls - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
BILC May 14, 2012BILC May 14, 2012
Defense Language InstituteDefense Language Institute Th The Czech Republic e Czech Republic
With books many people can become learned even outside a school. Without books nobody can be learned nor inside a school.
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Outline
Jan Amos Komenský Teaching and learning linguistic pitfalls Chain of Command of Language Centers Educational and Training Center Defense Language Institute (DLI)
• DLI tasks and responsibilities• Organization • Language Department• Testing department
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JOHN AMOS COMENIUS
Comenius occupies a place in education
of commanding importance. He introduces
and dominates the whole modern movement
in the field of elementary and secondary
education.”
Nicholas Butler, Columbia University
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During the 19th century Czech National Revival, Comenius became idealized as a symbol of the Czech nation.
28 March, the birthday of Comenius, is celebrated as Teachers' Day in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia .
A lot of schools were named after him. For example the Comenius University was founded in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, a primary school in Skopje, etc. Also, many educational programmes are named after him.
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• Orbis Pictus ("The Visible World in Pictures")• Linguae Bohemicae thesaurus (Thesaurus of the Czech language), 1612–1656• Grammaticae facilioris praecepta, 1614–1616• Janua Linguarum Reserata (The Gate of Tongues Unlocked), 1632• Didactica magna (The Great Didactic), 1633–1638• Didactica opera omnia (Writing on All Learning), 1657• Spicilegium Didacticum, 1680
Some of Comenius works
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• learning foreign languages through the vernacular; • obtaining ideas through objects rather than words; • starting with objects most familiar to the child to introduce him to both the new language and the more remote world of objects• giving the child a comprehensive knowledge of his environment, physical and social, as well as instruction in religious, moral, and classical subjects;• making this acquisition of a compendium of knowledge a pleasure rather than a task; • making instruction universal.
Comenius teaching fundamental ideas
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From „The Great Didactic“"What has to be done must be learned by practice. Artisans do not
detain their apprentices with theories, but set them to do practical work at an early stage; thus they learn to forge by forging, to carve by carving, to paint by painting, and to dance by dancing. In schools, therefore, let the students learn to write by writing, to talk by talking, to sing by singing, and to reason by reasoning. In this way schools will become work-shops humming with work, and students whose efforts prove successful will experience the truth of the proverb: 'We give form to ourselves and to our materials at the same time.' Mechanics do not begin by drumming rules into their apprentices. They take them into the workshop and bid them to look at the work that has been produced, and then, when they wish to imitate this (for man is an imitative animal). They place tools in their hands and show them how they should be held and used. Then, if they make mistakes, they give them advice and correct them, often more by example than by mere words, and, as the facts show, the novices easily succeed in their imitation. No one has ever mastered any language or art by precept alone; while by practice this is possible, even without precept.
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Different styles
Officialese The consumption of any nutriments whatsoever is
categorically prohibited in this establishment.
Official The consumption of nutriments is prohibited.
Formal You are requested not to consume food in this
establishment.
Neutral Eating is not allowed here.
Informal Please don´t eat here.
Colloquial You can´t feed you face here.
Slang Lay off the nosh.
Taboo Lay off the fucking nosh.
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• What do you fry your eggs in? creeper, fryer, frying pan, fry pan, skillet, or spider• What do you call a soft drink? pop, soda, soda pop, or tonic?
Beg, beseech, entreat, implore, supplicate, importune, obtest…
1. Beware of the bull!
2. I think the elephant is a bull.
3. Well done! You´ve hit the bull´s eye.
4. Don´t give me all that bull.
5. You will just have to take the bull by the horns.
6. Stop acting like a bull in a china shop!
7. There was a bull market on stock exchange yesterday.
VOCABULARYVOCABULARY
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SKIRTNICE
SKIRT
Logistic support
Round Robin Update
Table a Motion
Battle Captain
LIGHT SKIRT
BIT OF SKIRT
PIECE OF SKIRT
RUN A SKIRT
SKIRT AN ISSUE
Shipment
Motion
Flag officer
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Uložte viditelně za okno. Při odjezdu z objektu vraťte.
Store visibly behind the windows after leaving this object return.
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Pass must be visible through windshield. On departing the base return the pass to
the security personnel at the gate.
Store visibly behind the windows after leaving this object return.
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AusUS GB
Why are Australians always happy when their mothers die? They always say “Mothers die” with a smile on their face.
A guy wakes up, finds himself in a British hospital, and says, “Did I come here to die?” The Cokney nurse responds, “No, I think it was yesterdie.”
In a New York City Park one guy turns to another guy and says, “Look at de boids.”
The other guy says, “Those aren’t ‘boids.’ They’re ‘birds.’”
The first guy says, “Cheez, dat’s funny, dey choip like boids.”
DIALECTS and VARIETIESDIALECTS and VARIETIES
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HOMOPHONY and HOMONYMY
Mary had a little lamb
She also had a bear
I´ve often seen her little lamb
But never seen her bear
BridalBridle
CallousCallus
DiscreetDiscrete
FlairFlare
DiscreetDiscrete
Bear – animalBear – supportBare - naked
Fleet – group of shipsFleet – rapid
Jet – stream of waterJet – hard black soilJet – type of plane
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• C1 – Command • C2 – Command And Control • C3 – Command Control And Communication • C3I – Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence• C4 – Command Control Communication and Computers • C4IR – CommandControl Communication Computers Intelligence And Recognition
C4 - Channel 4 (UK TV) C4 - Carrera 4 (Porsche 911 model)
C4 –Middle C (piano keyboard) C4 - Composition 4 (explosive)
C4 - Combat Casualty Care Course
C4 - Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate
C4 - Fourth-Generation Corvette (Chevrolet)
C4 - Colonial Coin Collectors Club
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“Enemy sit. Aggressor forces in div strength holding MLR Hill 820 complex gc AT 940713-951716 w/fwd elements est. bn strength junction at gc AT 948715 (See Annex A, COMPHIBPAC intell summary period ending 25 June)… Mission: BLT 1/7 seize, hold and defend obj. A gc 948715... Execution: BLT 1/7 land LZ X-RAY AT 946710 at H-Hour 310600…A co. GSF estab. LZ security LZ X-Ray H minus 10… B co. advance axis BLUE H plus 5 estab. blocking pos. vic gs AT 948710… A, C, D cos. Maneuver element commence advance axis Brown H plus 10 … Bn tacnet freq 52.9 … shackle codeHAZTRCEGBD … div tacair dir. Air spt callsign PLAYBOY …Mark friendly pos w/air panels or green smoke. Mark tgt. w/WP” (Caputo, A Rumor of War 1996)
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Enemy situation. Aggressor forces in division strength are holding the main line of resistance at the Hill 820 complex located at grid coordinates 940713-951716 with forward elements estimated in battalion strength at the road junction located at grid coordinates 948715 (See Annex A, Pacific Amphibious Command intelligence summary for the period ending 25 June). Mission: Battalion Landing Team 1/7 will seize, hold and defend objective A at grid coordinates 948715. Execution: Battalion Landing Team 1/7 land at Landing Zone X-RAY at grid coordinates 946710 at H-Hour (which is 06:00 on 31 June). A company of the ground support force will establish landing zone security at landing zone X-Ray at 05:50 on 31 June. B Company will advance along axis Blue at 06:05 on 31 June to establish blocking positions in the vicinity of grid coordinates 948710. A, C, and D Companies: The maneuver element commence its advance along axis Brown on 06:10 on 31 June. The battalion tactical network frequency is 52.9. Radio shackle code will be HAZTRCEGBD. The division tactical air direction and air support call sign will be PLAYBOY. Mark all friendly position with air panels or green smoke. Mark targets (enemy positions) with white phosphorus.
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Chain of command of Language Centers
Personnel Division
General StaffMoD
DLIVyskov
Mil. High School
ETCChocerady
N. Defense UniversityBrno
Military AcademyVyskov
Zatec
Mil. Intel
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IntensiveIntensive
RefresherRefresher
CombinedCombined
Types of coursesLanguages
English
French
LANGUAGE SECTION
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Crucial Features of Training Program
• Six to seven 50-minute training units per day• Eight to ten students in each class• Native speaker 50-minute teaching unit per day (English SLP 3)• One mandatory lesson dedicated to listening practice in the
language laboratories per day• Lessons conducted exclusively in the target language
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Defense Language Institute
“Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” Chinese Proverb
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Mission statement of DLI
The Mission of the Defense Language Institute
is to ensure sufficiently trained and ready personnel are available
to meet the foreign language skill requirements
of the Ministry of Defense
and the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic.
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DLI Tasks Responsibilities and Activities
The Czech DLI is an educational facility, the aim of which is to fulfill, flexibly, pragmatically and in the needed quality and quantities, the tasks in the field oflanguage education as required by the Czech Armed Forces in accordance with its biding standards (STANAG 6001).
Running foreign language courses as ordered by MoD Testing in accordance with STANAG 6001 Methodological supervision of language centers in the Czech military Representation in BILC - NATO Teaching in ad-hoc language courses to prepare personnel for positions in NATO/EU and the UN
Publishing, standard-setting, methodological, conceptual and other activities Teaching Czech language for NATO and PfP personnel Methodological supervision of language centers Holding language conferences for managers in the field of language education Organizing special seminars Accreditation of examiners testing foreign languages Validation of certificates obtained abroad at language institutes Keeping the military-wide database of test results 31
Organizational Structure
Office of the Commander
TeachingDepartment
Organizational Branch
GermanicBranch
Other Lang.Branch – Int.
Prague, BrnoVyškov
EnglishTesting Br.
Other Lang.Testing Br.
Methodology and Testing Department
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DLI 2003 - 2011: Faculty and Staff
Sedlec - Vícenice
Liberec
Translators
Čáslav
Žatec
Vyškov
SAC Prague
Prague Program
Brno
Olomouc
85 64
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IntensiveIntensive
RefresherRefresher
CombinedCombined
TerminologicalTerminological
Specialized (NATO)Specialized (NATO)
Types of coursesLanguages
English
French
German
Russian
Arabic
Czech
LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
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Crucial Features of the DLI Language Training Program
• Six to seven 50-minute training units per day• Eight to ten students in each class• Native speaker 50-minute teaching unit per day (English SLP 3)• One mandatory lesson dedicated to listening practice in the
language laboratories per day• Use of authentic materials in the target language• Lessons conducted exclusively in the target language• Curriculum input from language training specialists from military
language centers abroad (primarily DLIELC, Texas).• Strong emphasis on student participation and motivation• Instructors who apply a highly communicative approach
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Number of DLI students Jan/Feb 2012 – English language
Type of Course Level Number of Courses No. of students
Intensive SLP 2 4 35
Intensive SLP 3 6 47
Refresher SLP 2 2 19
Refresher SLP 3 2 14
Terminological - 2 18
Combined SLP 2 110
TOTAL 25 144
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Number of Students 2007-2011
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
English
Other languages
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Language Training Department activities
• We are in the Army
• On the Battlefield
• Modern Military Weapons
• Building a Secure and
• Peaceful World
• Top Stories
• High in the Sky
A-report: Military English
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Testing department is responsible for test development and testing military and civilian personnel according to STANAG 6001 and is responsible for the following:
• Standardizing test forms for all languages tested
• Issuing testing rules
• Tests English, French, German, Russian, and Arabic languages Czech, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Albanian, Serbian, Persian, Pashtu,
Mandarin Chinese, Polish, and Romanian languages
TESTING AND METHODOLOGY DEPARTMENT
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Testing and Methodology Department activities
• Introduced bi-level testing
• Introduced language skill
levels re-testing
• Introduced plus levels
• BAT – project
• Multilevel tests
• Computer assisted testing
• Computer adaptive testing43
Candidates tested – 2011
Language SLP 1 SLP 2 SLP 3 Total
English 608 1276 452 2336
Skills x 196 126 322
Other languages 202 74 34 310
Skills x 12 2 14
Total 810 1558 61429822982
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