Weaknesses in the Resident Language Training System of Defense Language Institute Affect the Quality of Trained Linguists

摘要

The Defense Language Institute's Foreign Language Center is responsible for providing foreign language training to military personnel who are being prepared for intelligence activities. The Institute's mission is to conduct and supervise language training for these personnel and to provide technical support for all other foreign language training conducted for the services except for military academies and overseas schools. Document presents a report whose objectives were to identify and analyze significant internal Defense Language Institute problems that diminish the overall effectiveness of language training at the Institute.