WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT - LANGUAGE SCHOOL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06363A000300010010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 21, 1971
• Content Type: MF

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21 May 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
SUBJECT : Weekly Activities Report - Language School
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1. In anticipation of the joint meeting next Thursday, 27 May,
at FSI of the Language and Area Roundtables, I have discussed the
Language School's position with and will further
discuss it with on Monday. Our position is that in fact
in the later stages of language training we do concern ourselves with
the realities of the foreign culture and students prepare presentations
and engage in discussions on many aspects of the foreign culture. We
do not and feel that we do not have the capability to sensitize people
who are going abroad for the first time to the problems of living
abroad. This is, as I understand it, a socio-pschological-philosophical
approach which we feel can best be accomplished. in English.
2. the Personnel Officer for DOD, called and
asked advice on the training of several of their field personnel.
In one instance the officer wished to keep his level of French up
to the 3 level and needed to know what expenditure of time and money
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was required for this purpose. Of the options open to him, we
25X1A6a recommended an Alliance Francaise course. In the case of people in
who wanted to study Italian and. who have no
knowledge of the language, we recommended study in local universities
rather than commercial language schools. I presume that ISS/AIR will
Spanish teachers had received word from one of er s u ents that he
had contracted infectious hepatitis. His doctor advised that all
persons who had been in close contact should immediately get gamma
globulin shots. Involved were the five other students and three
>fi 3. On Friday morning, 21 May, Mrs. one of our
be receiving requests for external training in these cases. 25X1A9a
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instructors. We first asked OMS if there were some way that these
persons could get the shots or be reimbursed for shots received from
their private doctors, and were rebuffed. After pursuing this matter
through other bureaucratic channels, we were finally informed on
Friday afternoon that OMS would administer the shots.
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in August when her husband goes overseas
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possible replacement. I I worked for the Language School in
the past and has an excellent reputation among her former colleagues
as a very intelligent woman and a good teacher with good academic
credentials. After receipt of her papers, I intend to recommend
hiring her under a five-hour, part-time contract.
5. The Chinese Department ran a 22 day 0 session with 25X1A6a
a single student. We considered asking at least one other Chinese
speaker to accompany us but decided against it because the available
candidates were all far in advance of the proficiency of the student
who has been with us for less than five months. It was felt that a
more advanced Chinese speaker would detract from the amount of
attention given to the student. The experiment was a qualified
success. The student felt that he was not ready for total immersion,
but this is part of the rationale: to make him start talking before 25X1A6a
he thinks he is ready. Previous Chinesel exercises have
been quite unstructured, and this has been very successful with groups
of students. However, with a single student, the planning for what
is to be done at any given time could profitably be scheduled in
some detail.
6. is attending a tape software conference sponsored
by DLI at their Anacostia headquarters. He reported last evening that
a good deal in information is forthcoming in the conference. He will
return I Ion Monday, and we will include a full report on
the conference in the next weekly.
7.1 1 of Retirement Division has agreed to
address interested members of the Language School faculty on 17 June
on the ins and outs of the Civil Service Retirement System. This
will give our people who are eligible some idea of the benefits
available to them.
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8. La uaZe School Statistics:
Students and Classes as of the week of 10 - l4+ May 1971:
Students Classes
Full-time - 76 Full-time - 37
Part-time - 141 (tiii BAHLT) Part-time - 51 ( 8 BAHLT)
(#5 Hqs.) (10 Hqs.)
TOTAL.....217 TOTAL.....88
Laboratory hours for the week of 10 - 14 May 1971:
Language School - 187
Headquarters - 51
There were 20 proficiency tests given during the week of
10 - 14 May 1971.
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Acting Chief, Language School
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