The Defense Language Institute: Its Faculty, Students, and Languages, Changing and Growing - Couverture souple

De La Selva, Benjamin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1545394342 ISBN 13 : 9781545394342

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

In "The Defense Language Institute," the author presents an extensive view of the best and largest foreign language institution in the world, by means of 100 plus articles written by faculty, staff, students, and alumni, originally published between 2005 and 2015 in quarterly DLI Alumni Association newsletters. The subjects encompass a general background of DLI’s history, the establishment of military language training in the United States and abroad, as well as DLI’s enterprising presence in Monterey, California. The book touches on a variety of themes relating to Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian Farsi, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese, then it proceeds to deal with a good number of the other thirty some languages taught at the Institute from 1941 to 2017. The book similarly deals with the academic areas of teaching, testing, course development, and technology; likewise it taps broadly on themes like social events, memorial ceremonies, the DLI Hall of Fame, the Berlin Wall Monument, alumni visits and reunions, and faculty and staff stories. It concludes with brief accounts of the DLI Alumni Association, and the DLI Foundation. Read about the nationally famous "Cossacks in Khaki" or "DLI Russian Choir" of the 1960s, details on the Arabic, Russian, and Serbian Croatian programs, and the rapid development of the Haitian Creole conversion course, as well as personal accounts of graduates using their language in foreign countries.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

A Nicaraguan immigrant, Benjamin De La Selva joined the U.S. Army in the 1960s and studied foreign languages at the prestigious Defense Language Institute (DLI) in Monterey, California. His adventurous personality, fostered by the Army's 173rd Airborne Infantry Brigade, took him to the jungles of Vietnam and the interrogation of prisoners of war. By 1972, after his Army tour and combat assignments, he obtained a Master's degree in Education and was hired by DLI, where in 12 years advanced from language instructor to dean of every DLI language division. While a DLI dean, Ben founded the DLI Alumni Association, serving as its president until 2014. In 2006, a year after his civil service retirement, he was inducted into DLI’s Hall of Fame. Ben’s previous professional publications include “The Man with a Thousand Faces (2009),” a Spanish-English short stories book; and “Babel by the Bay (2015)” about his DLI and Vietnam experiences. His current work, “The Defense Language Institute," presents an extensive view of the largest and best foreign language institution in the world, by means of over 100 articles written by faculty, staff, students, and graduates, originally published in quarterly DLI Alumni Association newsletters between 2005 and 2015.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1545394342
• ISBN 13: 9781545394342
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 402
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg