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Center Initiatives To Promote Language Proficiency
- Participate in a Defense Language Office study of the various factors comprising aptitude in second language acquisition.
- Develop a USMA-specific profile of a 'Successful Language Learner."
- Create a Learning Resource Center for use by USMA faculty and cadets.
- Develop foreign language proficiency assessment tools that focus on the 0+ to 2+ range on the Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) rating scale.
- Coordinate evening lectures relevant to language proficiency, intercultural competence, and regional expertise.
- Research the relationship between language, culture, and regional expertise.
- Establish an endowment for further language and cultural immersion programs for USMA cadets.
Center Initiatives to Promote Cross-Cultural Competence (3C)
- Develop cross-cultural competence and regional knowledge assessment instruments for USMA cadets participating in study abroad programs.
- Provide input to the development of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Culture Training Strategy.
- Support the Army Research Institute’s cross-cultural competence project.
- Develop cross-cultural competence assessment instruments for use with all USMA cadets.
- Survey cross-cultural competence programs across DoD.
- Set up and host an annual cross-cultural competence conference at USMA.
- Research the relationship between language, culture, and regional expertise.
- Establish an endowment for further language and cultural immersion programs for USMA cadets.
Center Initiatives to Promote Regional Expertise
- Develop cross-cultural competence and regional knowledge assessment instruments for USMA cadets participating in study abroad programs.
- Provide input to the development of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Culture Training Strategy
- Support the Army Research Institute’s cross-cultural competence project.
- Research the relationship between language, culture, and regional expertise.
- Establish funding/endowment possibilities for further language and cultural immersion programs for USMA cadets.