Titel:
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Campaign : English for the military :Teacher's book
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Auteurs:
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Charles Boyle ;
Simon Mellor-clark
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Documenttype:
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Books
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Uitgever :
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London [United Kingdom] : Palgrave MacMillan, 2006
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Artikel op pagina:
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152 p.
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ISBN/ISSN/EAN:
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978-1-4050-0991-1
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Talen:
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Engels
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Indexering:
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418
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Tags:
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English language--Terms and phrases--Military
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Abstract :
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The introduction in the accompanying teacher’s book to Campaign 3 explains clearly the changing role of the military, changes in international defence relations and the numerous specific needs for English such as those of a commanding officer of a national contingent who is preparing for deployment to a country in the Balkans. Following this is a detailed explanation of how the book fits in with STANAG 6001, a standardisation agreement and a language proficiency scale designed to allow worldwide comparisons. The SLP (standardised language profile) of the user having completed this book should be ‘Minimum Professional’, i.e one who can understand and deliver briefings on complex topics, can read unfamiliar material with almost complete comprehension and can write competently on specialist fields. All of which is at the Threshold level on the Council of Europe scales. I must admit that I found the notes in the introduction on ‘Approach to Teaching’ quite extraordinary; anyone needing to be told in so much detail about how to plan a lesson should probably not be using this book. Or are we to assume teachers of military personnel are either unqualified or completed courses on which lesson planning was missing? Surely not
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