Effectiveness of Intensive Courses in Teaching War Zone Languages

Dehghani, Yavar

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-27037-7_5

Yavar Dehghani⁵

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The need to teach the languages spoken in a war zone has long been felt by the Australian Defence Forces, and thus the Defence Force School of Languages (DFSL) was established after the Second World War. The intensive language courses in DFSL are used to facilitate teaching of such languages to deploying service personnel. DFSL is located in Melbourne where hundreds of Defence members study a second language in a variety of intensive courses. The effectiveness of these intensive courses in learning second languages has been tried and proven for many years in the DFSL. This chapter provides a case study of current military practice with respect to language training for preparing those who will be deployed into a conflict zone.

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Australian National Dictionary Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Amanda Laugesen
School of Humanities and Communication, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia
Richard Gehrmann

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Dehghani, Y. (2020). Effectiveness of Intensive Courses in Teaching War Zone Languages. In: Laugesen, A., Gehrmann, R. (eds) Communication, Interpreting and Language in Wartime. Palgrave Studies in Languages at War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27037-7_5

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27037-7_5
Published: 19 October 2019
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