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BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE COORDINATION
BUREAU DE COORDINATION LINGUISTIQUE INTERNATIONALE
Closing Briefing
Julie J. Dubeau BILC Chair Tbilisi, Georgia, 9 May 2013
Bled, 2012
Czech Republic, 2012
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NATOSPEAK: ENGLISH IN MULTINATIONAL SETTINGS
NATO speak:
• Acronyms, abbreviations, lingo, jargon,• Specific meanings, expressions• A discourse community, but context
dependent, several domains• Non-standardized uses• Complexity of context• Procedures, approaches
NATOSPEAK: ENGLISH IN MULTINATIONAL SETTINGS
Implications and challenges:• Blending general and specific language• Deployment lessons learned• Military culture and intercultural awareness• Culture literate soldiers • High stakes
– Language as powerful tool for ‘good’: Obama to Iran– Consequences of miscommunications
• Crimean war
• Yugoslavia
NATOspeak = WMC
Weapon of Mass Confusion
NATOSPEAK: ENGLISH IN MULTINATIONAL SETTINGS
Getting the message across: Lingua franca
– EFL, ESL, LFE or ELF & English native speaker
– Plain Language, readability formulas
– Graded language, two-way communication
– Accents, pronunciation, stress, intonation, etc…
STANAG 6001, Edition 4
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Survival
Functional
Professional
NATOSPEAK: ENGLISH IN MULTINATIONAL SETTINGS
• Standards: Implications for training and testing– Time on task– STANAG 6001 across all languages– English Native Speaker reference
• Who else? Whose English, Spanish, French, etc.
– Test specifications– Capability database
STEERING COMMITTEE
• BILC Sec 2014: TBC
• Military terminology
• LNA
• ToR
• IS EQ Tbl : Letter
• Future Conferences & Seminars
STUDY GROUP - Recommendations
1. What is NATO Speak?
2. Enhancing Cross-cultural Communication within Multi-National Settings
3. On-line Language Maintenance Best Practices
4. Standardizing Application of STANAG 6001 Across Foreign Languages
5. Questionnaire on Deployment Lessons Learned
Contacts
“Language is Wine Upon the Lips”