The Lamonian Defense Language Institute is an organization under the auspices of the Lamonian Defense Ministry, which provides linguistic and cultural instruction to the Defense Ministry, other Governmental Agencies and numerous customers around the world.
Established in 1954, the DLI’s first priority is to train Lamonian military and governmental personel in the language and cultural norms needed to effectively communicate with people in other nations; thereby reducing cultural and language barriers to effective communication. The DLI also trains foreign personel in the English language, and Lamonian cultural norms. Other functions include planning, curriculum development, and research in second-language acquisition.
The DLI also provides language instruction to officer cadets in the Lamonian Military, Air Force, and Naval academies.
Defense Language Institute English Language Center (DLIELC)
The DLIELC is run by the Lamonian Air Force’s 69th training wing, responsible for teaching the English language to foreign military and civilian personel. In addition, the DLIELC also teaches English to Lamonian personel who might originally have come from another nation, and thus cannot speak or understand the English language. Training can also be conducted so that foreign personel can teach English in their native lands, but this requires more training than is required to learn English; the candidates for this training are normally already fluent in the English language. The primary campus for the DLIELC is located in Kazatlan, Lamoni.
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC)
The DLIFLC is dedicated to teaching foreign languages to Lamonian and foreign personel. Students study foreign languages at highly accelerated paces in courses ranging from 24 to 64 weeks in length. In October 2001, the Institute received degree-granting authority to issue Associate of Arts in Foreign Language degrees to qualified graduates of all basic programs.
The main campus of the DLIFLC is co-located with the main campus of the DLIELC, in Kazatlan, Lamoni.
History
The Lamonian Defense Language Institute was created in 1950 to consolidate the various language learning programs of the Lamonian military forces, as well as those of various Lamonian governmental agencies. It had been decided from the beginning that the DLI would use native speakers of the languages learned whenever possible, in order to provide the best quality language instruction possible; especially when lives could potentially be at stake (such as in intelligence assignments, or diplomatic overtures).
Defense Language Exam
Established in Kazatlan, Lamoni, the DLI has since embraced the best methods and technologies available to train their students in the language or languages in which they are learning. These students must first pass the Defense Language Exam, which determines the ability of the student(s) in question to learn another language, and not whether than can learn the language(s) in question.
The Defense Language Exam is divided into 120 multiple-choice, and audio questions; and a total score of at least 95 is needed to be admitted to the DLI. Languages are divided into four tiers, each of which represents a difficulty level for learning the language in question. A tier-one language is relatively easy to learn, while a tier-four language requires long and difficult study to learn.
Defense Language Proficiency Test
The Defense Language Proficiency Test is given to language learners at pre-determined intervals, and gives the instructors an indication of how proficient that the learner is in their language(s). The test also gives the instructors an indication on the strengths and weaknesses of the particular learner in their language studies, allowing the instructors to focus their efforts better, so as to help the learners in the most efficient manner.
When a learner is shown via the test to be proficient in the language(s) that they have been sent to the DLI to learn, the learner earns an Associate of Arts in Foreign Languages degree, as well as a certificate of completion from the DLI stating the language(s) which the learner has learned while at the DLI. Learners can return to the DLI as needed, if the need to learn another new language has arisen. The instruction and language learning materials of the DLI are provided free of cost to the learners; and the learners earn their regular salaries while they are assigned to the DLI for language learning.
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