[lg policy] US: New Military Language Learning Program

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded from: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


US Department of Defense



‘Dot-edu’ Migration Promotes Language Training



A pilot program that gives students at the Defense Language Institute
Foreign Language Center unprecedented access to language training
resources is proving so successful that it’s being expanded throughout
the school.

The pilot, launched Feb. 1, enables 200 students studying Dari -- a
dialect spoken in Afghanistan -- to tap into materials and
capabilities offered through the educational, or “dot-edu”, network,
said Jonathan Russell, the language center’s chief technology officer.



Full story:

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=65184





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