TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swain,Edgar D.
ED  - United States.
TI  - Building language skills and cultural competencies in the military
T2  - Languages and linguistics series
AV  - U716 
U1  - 355.5 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
KW  - Military education
KW  - United States
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Language
KW  - Cultural competence
KW  - Communicative competence
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Military
KW  - Other
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Military Science
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Statements originally presented before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation in 2008; Includes bibliographical references and index; ""Building Language Skills and Cultural Competencies in the Military""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Building Language Skills and Cultural Competencies in the Military: DOD's Challenge in Today's Educational Environment""; ""HASC Oversight and Investigations Members""; ""SC Oversight and Investigations Staff""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Introduction""; ""Key Questions""; ""Background""; ""Language Skills, Regional Expertise, and Cultural Awareness for the Few""; ""The Roadmap Vision for Transformation: What is the Department Trying to Accomplish, What is the Military Requirement, and how is the Department Trying to Accomplish its Goal""""The Services' Efforts""; ""Screening for Foreign Language Capability""; ""Cost and Risk Tradeoffs""; ""General Recommendations""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix A: Glossary of Acronyms""; ""Appendix B: Hearings, Briefings, Interviews""; ""Appendix C: Supporting Documents""; ""Appendix D: Defense Language Transformation Roadmap""; ""Appendix E: U.S. Navy's Language Skills, Regional Expertise, and Cultural Awareness Strategy""""Appendix F: NSLI Funding, by Agency""; ""Endnotes""; ""Statement of Dr. Robert O. Slater before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on September 23rd, 2008""; ""Introduction and Background""; ""What Is the Language Flagship?""; ""New Curricular Approaches""; ""K-12 Articulation""; ""Articulated Overseas Immersion""; ""Diffusion of Innovation""; ""Peer Review and Quality Assurance""; ""Engagement of the Business Sector""; ""A Closer Look at Flagship Centers""""Statement of Mrs. Gail H. McGinn before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on September 23rd, 2008""; ""Introduction""; ""Supporting a National Agenda""; ""Conclusion""; ""Presentation to the Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, United States House of Representatives, Language and Culture Transformation Efforts on September 10, 2008""; ""Introduction""; ""Air Force Culture and Language Transformation Efforts""; ""The End State: Airmen with Key Joint-Warfighting Capabilities/Airmen-Statesmen""""Trade-Offs""; ""Conclusion""; ""Statement by BG Richard C. Longo before the House Armed Services Committee, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, Second Session, 110th Congress, on September 10, 2008""; ""Statement of BG Gary S. Patton before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee on Foreign Language and Cultural Awareness Transformation on 10 September 2008""; ""Guidance""; ""Joint Professional Military Education (JPME)""
N2  - "This book consists of public domain documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, perhaps edited and bound to provide easy access."--P. [vii]
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ER  -