CL-150 Cohorts Sustainment Service Now Available for MSA and Farsi Posted by gail on Oct 26, 2015 in For Learners, For Program Managers, New in CL-150 Cohorts
It’s easy for a linguist’s language proficiency to fall off between formal language courses. Even with the best of intentions, life gets in the way and time flies by.
CL-150 Cohorts fight that tendency with regular, short lessons that feature current, engaging content in a given language at a target proficiency level.
CL-150 Cohort Coaches develop and distribute multiple focused lessons or “sustainment workouts” each week. Lessons cover useful professional topics, such as economics or politics and offer a variety of learning activities designed to engage each Cohort Member’s proficiency threshold. As a Cohort Member, you can complete the lessons anytime, anywhere and on almost any computer or mobile device. Your time and progress are tracked for your information or to address sustainment mandates.
- Initial Languages: Farsi and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
- Initial Proficiency Levels: In each language choose from Cohorts at ILR 2, 2+ or 3.
- Standard Lessons:
- 1 lesson or “workout” per week.
- Each lesson is based on fresh authentic content focused on culture, economy, environment, geography, military, politics, science, security, society or technology.
- Lessons will include both “Quick Study” and “Endurance Study” learning activities focusing on the listening, reading and writing.
- Major International News Event (MINE) lessons – Occasional MINE lessons may be distributed as news events warrant.
- Unit Command Language Program Managers and Mentors can leverage the CL-150’s reporting technologies to track individual Cohort Member training metrics.
- Recommended Participation: All USG Language Professionals with Arabic or Farsi language proficiency at or near ILR 2, 2+ or 3 are invited to enroll in the appropriate Coached Cohort.
To enroll, visit the Cohorts panel from the CL-150 homepage and enroll in your desired languages and levels.
We anticipate adding Cohorts for other languages, dialects and domains. Watch for updates in future CL-150 bulletins and on the CL-150 Cohort Coaching information page.
