WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06363A000300010024-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: May 7, 1971
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
SUBJECT . Weekly Activities Report
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7 May 1971
1. On Monday I visited the FSI Language School and had an
opportunity to exchange information with Dr. James Frith and his deputy,
Mr. Lloyd Swift. In view of the fact that we are looking for ways of
offering some language laboratory services in the Rosslyn area
(principally for I asked if some of our Rosslyn people could
use the FSI lab for self study. Dr. Frith felt that this was feasible
and suggested that we request such service in a memorandum.
2. I I called Monday to
discuss further the possibility of our offering a Russian familiariza-
tion course of about 24 hours for NPIC personnel who need to know how
to transliterate from Cyrillic to Roman script and to identify simple
organizational names, place names and well-known acronyms. He would
like to run the program evenings from 1600 to 1700 at NPIC. Seventy-
five NPIC employees have indicated an interest in such a program.
31 met with the Executive Officer of II this
week to discuss future Vietnamese language training. The meeting was
arranged to respond to a telepouch from Saigon which suggested the use
of DLI facilities instead of the Language School. Data on the tests
of DLI-trained individuals who have entered the Agency was discussed,
and the shortcomings of such training was noted. Q will send a
report on this to Saigon (the cable will be coordinated with us),
stating that it is still the Division's intention to have personnel
trained at LS for both beginning and advanced levels.
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4. In keeping with our objective of encouraging instructors to
make professional contacts with other language schools,
of our German faculty traveled to Boston last week at the
invitation of the Goethe Institute. observed and
recorded German classes, interviewed the teaching staff, and returned
with an excellent report on the teaching methods used at the Institute.
The German Department faculty feels that visit was
beneficial for the whole Department. We plan to order some of the
Goethe Institute materials since their audio-visual, direct-method
approach seems to produce very good results.
5. who has done extensive work in evaluating
and producing language laboratory tapes, was invited this week to
participate in a conference on lab software which the DLI will sponsor
later in the month. The Defense Department is in the process of
reviewing the whole language lab concept and the effectiveness of
their taped materials. They have invited experts from several quarters
to offer advice. Since there has been quite a bit of controversy about
labs lately in the professional journals, we will be interested to
hear the conclusions of the conference.
6. This week the bulk of our new furniture arrived, including
stack shelves for the library, tables for the classrooms, chairs for
our lab booths, and desk-type tables for the proficiency testing room.
We now lack only the chairs for our seminar room and a few odds and
ends to complete the furnishing of our quarters.
7. Last wee attended a basic video workshop,
sponsored by the Civil Service Commission, to learn something about
video hardware and techniques for using it. I has been
very active in the development of audio-visual materials at LS,
and the workshop was useful to her. Since it was a well-organized
course in an area about which we have very little expertise, we expect
to send a few more participants the next time it is offered.
8. Two of our students reported the loss of their loan-out
cassette recorders through theft last week. In one case the recorder
was stolen when the student left it briefly on his porch; in the
second instance the cassette was one of many things taken when the
student's house was broken into.
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9. Language School Statistics:
This week 24 new students started language training, most of
them in French and Spanish. Following are last week's statistics:
Students Classes
Full-time - 77 Full-time - 33
Part-time - 162 (1.6 BAHLT) Part-time - 56 ( 8 BAHLT)
(68 Hqs.) (13 Hqs.)
TOTAL ..... 239 TOTAL.....89
Laboratory hours for the week of 26 - 30 April 1971:
Language School - 102
Headquarters - 37
There were 25 proficiency tests given during the week of
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Acting Chief, Language School
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