Second language skills for all? : analyzing a proposed language requirement for U.S. Air Force officers / / Chaitra M. Hardison.
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| Superior document: | Technical report (Rand Corporation) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Technical report (Rand Corporation)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 148 pages) :; color illustrations |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of 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.