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The Defense Language Institute (DLI) is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) educational and research institution consisting of two separate entities which provide linguistic and cultural instruction to the Department of Defense, other federal agencies and numerous customers around the world.
The Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) is a battery of foreign language tests produced by the Defense Language Institute and used by the United States Department of Defense (DoD). They are intended to assess the general language proficiency of native English speakers in a specific foreign language, in the skills of reading and listening.
The languages are broken into tiers based on their difficulty level for a native English speaker as determined by the Defense Language Institute. The category into which a language is placed also determines the length of its basic course as taught at DLI. To qualify to pursue training in a language, one needs a minimum score of 95.
The group conducts language training for United States Air Force personnel at the Defense Language Institute (DLI) centers at the Presidio of Monterey, California and Washington, DC through its two assigned training squadrons. It also provides administrative support to Air Force personnel assigned to language training. [3]
At the same time, the 37th TRW also conducts technical training for security forces, logistics, and professional military education and hosts the English component of the Defense Language Institute. Its four primary training functions graduate more than 85,000 students annually.
In 1976, the Defense Language Institute became the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLI-FLC), the Defense Department's primary center for foreign language instruction. The center constitutes the principal activity at the Presidio. The Presidio serves all branches of the Department of Defense as well as other select government ...
Defense Language Institute faculty (7 P) Pages in category "Defense Language Institute" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Vance Barracks at Presidio of Monterey is a military structure that houses students of the Defense Language Institute(DLI). The institute’s foreign language center is the primary tenant organization of the United States Army garrison Presidio of Monterey (POM) located in Monterey, California about 117 miles south of San Francisco, on the Pacific coast of the United States of America.