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Project Details:
Principal Investigators on this project:
Doughty, Cathy
Marine Corps Short Course in Arabic
Turbo Arabic
Project Objective: To evaluate and provide guidance to the Marine Survival-Level Short Course in Arabic.
Project Definition: A short course is four-weeks (20-days) of intensive language and cultural training for Marines deploying to Iraq.
Project Importance: Knowledge of basic Arabic is critical in many military operations in Iraq. Assessment of short/turbo courses is an action item under Goal 2 of the Defense Language Transformation Roadmap.
Project Background: Prior to deploying to Iraq, U.S. Marines may enroll in a short, intensive course - "Turbo Arabic" - at Camp Lejeune. It is essential to assess what can be expected in short-term language training and how to maximize the use of time spent in this effort.
Project Products: - CASL delivered to the U.S. Marine Corps:
- Marine Survival-Level Short Course in Arabic Evaluation
- Comprehensive Technical Report, including recommendations and guidelines for teaching effective short language courses given zero, minimal, or optimal funding levels
- Set of mission-relevant Iraqi Arabic language and cultural materials for immediate implementation
- Detailed briefings to U.S. Marine Corps training leadership and local community college administrators and instructors and
- Pentagon Briefing handout and slides.
Project Reports: Marine Corps Turbo Arabic Technical Report
Project Activities: CASL researchers: - Traveled to Camp Lejeune
- Interviewed Marines who had taken the course and deployed to Iraq
- Developed and evaluation period
- Recorded the entire 160 hours of the course (A/V)
- Constructed an outcome measure
- Analyzed the above data using the process-evaluation checklist protocol
In order to: - Identify training objectives
- Identify Marine Arabic language needs
- Assess potential effectiveness of the course
- Evaluate teaching and training needs
- Determine what was learned by Marines at the end of the course
- Evaluate the potential effectiveness of the course
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