“Interagency Language Roundtable”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

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Interagency Language Roundtable

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Membership
Committees Joining the ILR Meetings Officers
Formation
Contributions to the Field of Linguistics
See also
References
External links

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The Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) is an unfunded organization comprising various agencies of the United States Federal Government with the purpose of coordinating and sharing information on foreign language activities at the federal level.

The ILR's primary function is to act as an avenue for the varying participating federal agencies to keep abreast of modern methods and technology regarding the teaching of language, the use of language, and any other language related issues.

Membership

The ILR membership consists of a large number of people with professional interest in language with regards to the teaching, learning, or use of language in a professional context. About 60% of the membership are federal employees.^[1]

Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Arlington County Schools
Bureau of the Census
Coast Guard
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense/Office of the Secretary of Defense (DOD/OSD)
DOD: Army Foreign Language Program
DOD: Defense Intelligence Agency
DOD: Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC)
DOD: Defense Language Institute-Washington
DOD: Defense Language Office
DOD: DLI English Language Center
DOD: Office of the Undersecretary of Defense-Personnel and Readiness
DOD: U.S. Army Foreign area officer Program
Department of Education
Department of Health & Human Services
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Justice: Executive Office for Immigration Review
Department of Justice: Language Services
Department of State Foreign Service Institute
Department of State Office of Language Services
District of Columbia Courts
Fairfax County Schools
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Government Accountability Office
Intelligence Language Institute
Library of Congress
National Cryptologic School
National Institutes of Health
National Security Agency
National Security Education Program
National Virtual Translation Center
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Peace Corps
Postal Service
Secret Service
Voice of America

ALTA Language Services
American Council on Education
American Council of Teachers of Russian
American Council of Learned Societies
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
American Translators Association
ASET International Services
Association of Proprietary Language Schools
Center for Advanced Study of Language
Center for Applied Linguistics
Center for Naval Analyses
Coalition for International Education
Comprehensive Language Center
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Diplomatic Language Services
East Coast Organization of Language Testers
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Howard County Community College
Howard University
ICA Language Services
International Center for Language Studies
InLingua School
Institute of International Education
InterGalaxSystems, Ltd.
Joint National Committee for Languages
Language Learning Enterprises
Linguistic Data Consortium
Linguistic Society of America
McNeill Technologies
MITRE Corporation
Modern Language Association
National Capital Language Resource Center
National Foreign Language Center
National Language Museum
San Diego State University
SCOLA
Second Language Testing
Transparent Language
University of Maryland University College
University of Maryland College Park
University of Virginia
Washington Language Center
World Bank

Regularly Attending Entities
Government Agencies and Offices	Academic Organizations, Proprietary Institutions and Other NGOs

Committees

Aside from general membership, the ILR has three standing special interests committees:

Steering Committee
- The Steering committee is responsible for planning ILR direction and events, and is composed of members from eight different federal agencies.
Testing Committee
Training Committee
Translation and Interpretation Committee.

Committees are chaired by federal employees from five different agencies.

Additionally, the ILR hosts the ILR Special Interest Group (SIG) on the Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL). CASL SIG meetings, unlike ILR plenary meetings, are not open to general membership, allowing only federal representatives in attendance.

Joining the ILR

Any interested person may attend unrestricted ILR plenary meetings and events, requiring only two days advance registration via the ILR home page. To become an ILR member, a person must first join their mailing list. Joining a specific committee requires only notifying a co-chair of the committee involved, and regularly attending meetings. Further details are listed on the ILR website. Membership is free.

Meetings

Plenary meetings are held monthly between September and June. Lectures and demonstrations on linguistic general interest topics are featured at every plenary meeting. Prior to each plenary meeting, each committee meets to discuss specific topics of interest. Some committee meetings are not open to general membership, due to coverage of certain topics of federal interest. These meetings' attendance restrictions are announced in advance.

Most plenary meetings boast between 75 and 100 attendees.

Officers

All officers of the ILR are volunteers who hold full-time federal positions elsewhere.

Current Officers^[2]
Office	Officer
ILR Coordinator and Chair of the Steering Committee	Dr. Scott McGinnis
Co-chair, Testing Committee	Christina Hoffman
Co-chair, Testing Committee	Inna Sabia
Co-chair, Training Committee	Doug Gilzow
Co-chair, Training Committee	John Samaha
Co-chair, Translation and Interpretation Committee	Maria Brau
Co-chair, Translation and Interpretation Committee	Teresa Salazar
Co-chair, Culture Committee	Allison Greene-Sands
Co-chair, Culture Committee	Ewa Zeoli
Co-chair, UARC SIG	Marsha Kaplan
Co-chair, UARC SIG	Stephanie Stauffer
Webmaster	Dr. Bogdan B. Sagatov

The Foreign Service Institute, the National Cryptologic School, and the Defense Language Institute lend additional minor clerical assistance.

Formation

The origins of the ILR can be traced back to 1955, when the Foreign Service Institute's Howard Sollenberger, the CIA's Clyde Sargent, and James Frith of the Air Force Language Program, conversed regarding the need for communication and coordination between federal agencies in training, policies, and practices of foreign languages.

Subsequent meetings included attendance by members of the local academic community as well as Charles Ferguson, Director of the Center for Applied Linguistics.

The ILR was formally institutionalized in 1973, after a study conducted by the General Accounting Office demonstrated the value of the organization.

Contributions to the Field of Linguistics

Since the 1950s, the ILR has made a number of contributions to the field of linguistics, both for American and foreign linguists, including, but not limited to:^[3]

ILR Proficiency Level Descriptions^[4] - This is a system of measuring the language proficiency of an individual, on a scale of 0 to 5. Proficiency level of 0 equates to no knowledge of a language, while the proficiency level of 5 equates to a highly educated foreigner or native speaker. Proficiency levels in excess of a whole number, but not reaching the next whole number are represented with the 'plus' sign, for example, a linguist who speaks at a near native level might be represented as having a 4+ level proficiency. (A similar system is used in the Userboxes of Babel.)
ILR Translation Performance Skill Level Descriptions - Translation proficiency measurements based on the ILR Proficiency Level Descriptions, developed in 2005.
ILR Interpretation Performance Skill Level Descriptions - Interpretation proficiency measurements based on the ILR Translation Performance Skill Level Descriptions, developed in 2006.
Co-sponsorship with the National Virtual Translation Center of the “Languages of the World” website.
The development of a widely used interagency training manual for oral proficiency testing candidates.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.govtilr.org/FAQ.htm|title=ILR FAQ|publisher=ILR}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.govtilr.org/ILR_POCs.htm|title=ILR Points of Contact|publisher=ILR}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.govtilr.org/ILR_History.htm|title=ILR History|publisher=ILR}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.govtilr.org/Skills/index.htm|title=ILR PLD History|publisher=ILR}}

External links

ILR Home Page
CASL Home Page
Languages of the World

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