WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040093-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: June 24, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO
Acting Chief, Language and Area School
DATE: 24 June 1959
FROM :
SUBJECT:
Deputy for Language Training
Weekly Activities Report
A.
SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
B.
None to report.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. A Qualifications Review Panel is meeting this Friday to act
on the applications of four men for full-time Chinese training.
2. Interest has been expressed by two TSS men in an Arabic
familiarization course. They have been asked to make a request by
memo to LAS.
3-I met with representatives from St. Timothy's
Academy on Friday to discuss modern language teaching techniques,
especially the use of audio-visual aids. A lively discussion of
problems in language teaching was followed by a demonstration of the
use of tape recordings in the "I" Building laboratory. They were given
literature on the use of the language laboratory and information on
sources of further information.
4.~ met with Dr. Lee Hamilton of PSI to discuss the State
Department's reply to the letter from Senator Jackson. State made an
interim reply expressing interest in the proposal for a NATO effort in
behalf of language training in African and Asian languages. Dr. Hamilton
believes that the proposal will be given to the language School for
further study and suggested that our detailed ideas on the plan be co-
ordinated at a later time, if the occasion arises to submit detailed
comments.
5. Final examinations have been given to the Basic Polish
25X1 Reading (I) course, conducted by Four students, all analysts
from the DDI, completed this phase. There were no drop-outs.
6. Steady progress is being made in the preparation of teaching
25X1 materials for Central Asian languages. has almost completed a
descriptive grammar of Uzbek, based on the Tashkent dialect. The
25X1 printer also reports that Uzbek Newspaper Reader will come out
in the near future. This ex s supplied with an end vocabulary of
all items appearing in the reading selections.
25 YEAR
RE-REVIEW I4
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7. Two of our VLTP classes in the more unusual languages, Finnish
and Persian, just completed the elementary cycle in the 104+ class this
past trimester. None of the students had any previous knowledge of the
language. The three students in Finnish and the two students in Persian
recently took the Agency's Proficiency test and did very well indeed,
all being given awards for achievement. Four of the five students had
at least elementary in all of the five categories of proficiency. One
of the students in Persian achieved high in reading and was awarded
$1+00 - for specialized achievement. As far as we know this is the highest
single award for achievement given to any VLTP student. The other Persian
student and all three of the Finnish students achieved intermediate in
reading.
8. The two Basic Part-Time French classes passed without interruption
from Phase I to Phase II. One student dropped out and was replaced by a
new student of equal level keeping the number of students at four for
each section.
and summer employee.
9. The personnel icture in the French department has changed
considerably. will be leaving for overseas about 15 August.
The clerical help now includes on loan from Reproduction,
10. I pf the Romance languages department
have started summer courses in Linguistics at the Georgetown Institute.
is being sent to the course as a directed assignment and
is taking a course on her own time.
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