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Article: Understanding the new Defense Language Proficiency Test: What it is and what it isn't
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- Special Warfare
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School Nov/Dec 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Last year, the Department of Defense began using a new version of the Defense Language Proficiency Test that is a significant departure from earlier language tests. Since then, the Defense Language Proficiency Test, version V, or DLPT V, like other innovations, has caused some concern and anxiety.
Although the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center initiated an information-awareness campaign in September 2005 to acquaint the foreign-language-teaching community, DoD linguists and other personnel who must demonstrate language skills with the development and administration of DLPT V, apprehensions and myths regarding the new test remain. In order to dispel some of them, let's ...