Foreign Language Education is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Before you know it, all the pieces come together to form a beautiful picture, that says a thousand words. Having the ability to put a jigsaw puzzle together requires (a) patience (b) self-management, (c) problems solving skills, (d) critical thinking, (e) decision making skills (f) effective communication when working in groups (g) leadership (h) collaborative skills. Therefore, the jigsaw puzzle metaphor represents the skills that cadets need to develop and understand to be successful in this course.
LA485: Foreign Language and Intercultural Competency Training Course
Welcome to Foreign Language and Intercultural Competency Training Course!
This course is a blended/hybrid online course, with remote access to course materials, incorporating an in-class lab rotation model and face to face collaborative group activities. It is designed to develop intercultural communicative skills, using information communication technologies (ICT) and virtual reality. The foreign language and intercultural competency training course will introduce and develop basic intercultural communicative skills and create opportunities for leaders of character to become proficient in applying conflict management, critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, leadership and self-management skills to be applied in a multifaceted operational environment. It will prepare cadets for a career with the United States Armed Forces.
This course is designed to instruct military cadets on Iraqi culture, religion, social and economic development. It is intended to teach conflict management, critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, leadership and self-management. It allows opportunities for cadets to interact in a 3D virtual reality world, to practice Iraq culture and language, to become proficient and have a functional knowledge of the Iraqi language and culture. The course is intended to teach cadets how to maintain social order, balance self-interest with that of culturally sensitive global prospects and prepare them for Army services.
A minimum of 1.67 is required to pass this course. This course counts for 2 courses (6 credit hours)
Grade Letter
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A+
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A
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A-
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B+
Points Earned
4.33
4.00-4.32
3.67-3.99
3.33-3.66
Grade Letter
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B
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B-
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C+
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C
Points Earned
3.00-3.32
2.67-2.99
2.33-2.66
2.00-2.32
Grade Letter
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C-
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D
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F
Points Earned
1.67-1.99
1.00-1.66
0.00-0.99
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Jesse Regalado (MS IDT): course designer, author, and professor.
I am a professional development facilitator (Learning Sciences) and human performance technologists (Six Sigma).
I'm passionate about teaching, using human performance improvement, project management skills, and organizational development methodologies.
I have a masters in Instructional Design and Technology with a concentration in Human Performance Improvement Technology.
I have a Bachelors in the field of Psychology, from Georgia State University.
I also possess a minors and Business Administration, from Georgia Piedmont Technical College
Dr. Jesse Regalado, Ph.D.
Teacher Introduction Video
Goals:
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Inspire graduates to Live by Honor: understand legal, moral, and ethical consequences of behaviors.
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Inspire graduates to Lead by Honor: enforce standards that develop others and solve problems.
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Communication: Communicate effectively using foreign language skills.
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Critical Thinking: Ability to solve problems, apply conflict management, critical thinking, decision making, leadership and self-management skills.
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Lifelong Learning: Demonstrate and engage in lifelong educational development.
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Ethical Reasoning: Understand ethical, social, environmental, and safety practices, to maintain social order, balance self-interest and that of culturally sensitive global prospects.
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Apply communicative skills to effectively use ethical, social, environmental, and safety practices.
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·STEM: Apply communicative skills to create operative and adaptive solutions using virtual reality (science, technology).
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Use virtual reality to compute processes, create mental models, systems and behaviors that align with cultural competence (math, engineering).
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Humanities and Social Sciences: Apply intercultural competence skills to understand human behavior to interact within a culture
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Disciplinary Depth: to become proficient in applying conflict management, critical thinking, decision making, problem solving, leadership and self-management skills in a multifaceted operational environment.
Learning Outcomes:
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Apply knowledge of foreign language and intercultural competencies to complex operational environments.
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Function as a part of an interdisciplinary team to solve problems, applying conflict management, critical thinking, decision making, leadership and self-management skills.
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Identify, formulate, and resolve conflicts using effective communication, foreign language, and intercultural competency skills.
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Analyze the diverse and complex legal, political, and military interactions of cultures and their social systems.
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Understand the impact of foreign language, and intercultural competency, in a global environment and in cross cultural context.
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Demonstrate knowledge and ability to communicate effectively using the Iraqi language and intercultural competence employing ethical, social, and safety practices.
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Recognize the need to acquire the skills to become a life-long learner, and to develop the skills for self-directed and self-regulated learning
Learning Objectives
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1. Remember: Succeed in developing the use of foreign language and intercultural competencies by reproducing sounds, draw comparisons, use appropriate language and gestures, and embrace diversity and cultural competence.
This will be accomplished through the tactical language and cultural training system (TLCS).
This will be accomplished through group activities (oral practice)
2. Understand: The objectives of the foreign language and intercultural competency training course is to develop macro language skills: listening, speaking, and cultural exchange.
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This will be accomplished through the tactical language and cultural training system (TLCS).
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This will be accomplished through group activities (oral practice)
3. Apply: Demonstrate leadership and self-management skills that contribute to the operational environment.
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This will be accomplished through the tactical language and cultural training system (TLCS).
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This will be accomplished through group activities (oral practice).
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This will be accomplished through completions of assignments.
4. Apply: Contribute to the solution of conflict management and problem solving using the foreign language and intercultural competencies.
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This will be accomplished through the tactical language and cultural training system (TLCS).
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This will be accomplished through group activities (oral practice).
5. Create: Write two synthesis papers
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Write a paper synthesizing three articles evaluating the effectiveness of the tactical language and cultural training system (TLCS).
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Write a paper synthesizing three articles evaluating how the tactical language and cultural training system (TLCS) is used in education.
Glossary of Terms:
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Tactical Language and Cultural Training System (TLCS): program that allows people to acquire functional skills in foreign language and culture competence.
Tactical Iraqi 4.0 (T. I): is a 3D virtual reality course that has 36 lessons, 2027 lesson pages, 2214 words, 85 example dialogs, 29 active dialogs, and 7 missions.
Lapu Client Simulation Architecture: this consists of learner model and skill model.
· Learner Model: uses an interactive social simulations and speech recognition software.
· Skills Model: utilizes behavior instructions for game agents, simulated game world, mission engines, information about action status and world state, speech recognition and nonverbal behavior.
· Logs: system events.
· Records: audio files.
Mission Game Dialog: presents a scenario, and which the learner must carry out a mission and associate with locals.
Skill Builder Dialog: presents a scenario and prompts you to say an appropriate phrase. It records the phrase and gives immediate feedback.
Arcade Game: allows for speech practice, and introduction to game controls
Speech Recognition: software that recognizes human speech.
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