BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE COORDINATION BILC Conference Bruges
BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE COORDINATION BILC Conference Bruges, Belgium 04 -09 May 2014 ”Forging effective partnerships to optimize operational success” Advantages and disadvantages of contracting language training/testing services 1 MAY 14 LT Estela Magalhães Parreira
AGENDA § § 2 Introduction Weaknesses Strengths Conclusions
INTRODUCTION 3
INTRODUCTION Due to our commitments within NATO, UN, and EU, we teach English to our military. 4
INTRODUCTION We will soon begin to teach French. (Portuguese Air Force) For this language, we will contract external services to teach and test. 5
INTRODUCTION To teach and test English, we have in-house capabilities but also contracted services. 6
INTRODUCTION Throughout the years we have been: Downsizing the contracted services Developing in-house capabilities 7
WEAKNESSES / STRENGTHS 8
WEAKNESSES 9
WEAKNESSES Poor awareness of STANAG 6001 Testing NOT IAW STANAG 6001 10
WEAKNESSES Difficulties in adjusting to military environment Difficulties in adjusting to military teaching methodologies 11
WEAKNESSES Difficulty in teaching military terminology Difficulty in teaching for the mission 12
WEAKNESSES Virtual impossibility of teaching classified material 13
WEAKNESSES Lack of military experience to teach communicative skills within the field of military operations 14
WEAKNESSES Costly No permanent ties to the Military 15
STRENGTHS 16
STRENGTHS In case of shortage of “in-house” teachers 17
STRENGTHS Valuable asset because we usually contract English native teachers 18
STRENGTHS Valuable asset for: Academic English General English Higher Levels 19
STRENGTHS Different teaching methodologies Value added provided by these partnerships 20
STRENGTHS No permanent ties to the Military 21
CONCLUSIONS 22
CONCLUSIONS As everything in life, contracting teaching/testing services has weaknesses and strengths 23
TEACH I NG GUARA N TEE OBJECT IVE LANGUAG E S OPE R ATIONS C O MBINED P THEATRE REGARDLESS COMMUNIC A TE B EST MIL I TARY SKIL LS MULT I NATIONAL STRENGT HS EFFECTIVELY LIFE MAY DE END ON IT! 24
BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE COORDINATION BILC Conference Bruges, Belgium 04 -09 May 2014 ”Forging effective partnerships to optimize operational success” Advantages and disadvantages of contracting language training/testing services 25 MAY 14 LT Estela Magalhães Parreira
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