WEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00442A000200040184-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2009
• Sequence Number: 184
• Publication Date: January 14, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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Office Memorandum ? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
: Chief, Language and Area School
FROM : Deputy for Language Training
suBJECT: Weekly Activities Report
by LAS staff and contract instructors. In all, 47 instructors
DATE: 14 January 1959
A. SIGNIFICANT ITEMS
Last Saturday LAS held another of its institutes on language
teaching and linguistics with the instructors in the VLTP. The
meeting took place from 0930 to 1230 in R&S building. The first
hour was devoted to orientation of instructors just entering the
program plus a few prospective instructors. Following this, sepa-
rate sessions were held for Slavic and East European, Romance,
Germanic, and Non-Indo-European language instructors. At these
individual sessions both old and new instructors in the program
were present and demonstrations of drill techniques were given
instructor. It is expected that the course can start in approximately
two weeks.
We have offered to assist in every way, including training r an
of setting up a enc course under the VLTP for staff
B. OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. discussed with he possibility
the wife o an employee. If it works out, her em oymen can be for
a limited time only and the problem of increasing the native speaker
personnel in French remains.
3. interviewed a prospective instructor
2. a part-time instructor in French, will
be absent our weeks as or the week while unde o r an operation.
To meet the 58 hour weekly teaching load agreed to
work two hours more daily in addition to the four she already works.
4. T e _Basic Czech (FT) Class is finishing up three days at
oday. They w
from LAS and by
chaperones.
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5. The Arabic Familiarization Course began 12 January with
an enrollment of about 40, including about 8 from NEA. It is sched-
uled to run for six weeks.
6? has arrived to take up his duties
as a contract employee instructing in the full-time Greek course
which is to begin 19 January. Upon DTR's approval, his contract will
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