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Second language skills for all? : analyzing a proposed language requirement for U.S. Air Force officers / Chaitra M. Hardison.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- Technical report (Rand Corporation)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Second language acquisition--United States.
- Second language acquisition.
- Communicative competence--United States.
- Communicative competence.
- United States. Air Force--Officers--Training of.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 148 pages) : color illustrations
- Other Title:
- Second-Language Skills for All?
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2012
- Santa Monica, CA Rand 2012
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In an effort to determine the feasibility of requiring all Air Force officers to attain a specific level of proficiency in a second language, the authors conducted a survey of current Air Force officers. The results suggest that such a requirement is not currently feasible. However, it would instead be desirable to offer incentives for a variety of efforts made toward achieving proficiency, both before and after commissioning.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-8330-8318-X
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