The Defense Language Institute: Its Faculty, Students, and Languages, Changing and Growing

By Benjamin De La Selva

In "The Defense Language Institute," the author presents an extensive view of the best and largest foreign language institution in the world, by means of 100 plus articles written by faculty, staff, students, and alumni, originally published between 2005 and 2015 in quarterly DLI Alumni Association newsletters. The subjects encompass a general background of DLI's history, the establishment of military language training in the United States and abroad, as well as DLI's enterprising presence in Monterey, California. The book touches on a variety of themes relating to Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian Farsi, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese, then it proceeds to deal with a good number of the other thirty some languages taught at the Institute from 1941 to 2017. The book similarly deals with the academic areas of teaching, testing, course development, and technology; likewise it taps broadly on themes like social events, memorial ceremonies, the DLI Hall of Fame, the Berlin Wall Monument, alumni visits and reunions, and faculty and staff stories. It concludes with brief accounts of the DLI Alumni Association, and the DLI Foundation. Read about the nationally famous "Cossacks in Khaki" or "DLI Russian Choir" of the 1960s, details on the Arabic, Russian, and Serbian Croatian programs, and the rapid development of the Haitian Creole conversion course, as well as personal accounts of graduates using their language in foreign countries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1545394342
• ISBN13: 9781545394342
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"