It is increasingly important to communicate effectively with US allies across the globe. A common language and cultural understanding form the foundation of security cooperation and are key elements in developing truly interoperable forces.
ACS offers a full suite of training, services, and administrative support tailored to public sector clients that deliver English language training programs to foreign personnel. These training programs seek to simultaneously increase English language proficiency of foreign nation personnel as well as develop the cultural awareness and understanding of the teams implementing the program. Working with organizations to capture requirements and objectives, ACS develops tailored training materials, programs of instruction, and instructors as needed, to build and implement English language training programs to Partner Nations. This can include stand alone training or integration into existing mobile training team or other platforms. We can build and sustain effective training packages ranging from 3 weeks to multiple years.
Our programs are uniquely designed to present opportunities for cooperation, mutual understanding, and friendship within a fiscally strained environment, while providing an effective way to meet Country Security Cooperation Plan requirements. Our Training materials focus on facilitating interactive discussions on a variety of personal, social, and military topics to foster greater intercultural awareness and familiarity among participants. ACS can customize a tailored training program building off loosely standardized framework components and the discussion content they are intended to facilitate. These include:
Objectives will help identify the broader topics, ideas and potential avenues for discussion.
There is a section of resource and discussion material that corresponds to the learning objective.
Handy Words and Phrases provided for each topic are an abbreviated set of terms that can assist participants in communicating.
Exchange What You Know begins the process of examining the physical data that forms the personal opinions that reflect the cultural attitudes and beliefs.
What Do You Think allows participants to explore one another’s opinions about the topic with an emphasis on providing informed, supporting information.
Take Away segment of each topic provide the opportunity to thoughtfully reflect, review, re-examine, and restate what participants have learned and gained during their discussion.