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U -- LANGUAGE TRAINING DUE 080699 POC Betty Waters, Telephone 703-302-6772 The Foreign Service Institute provides language training and testing to employees of the Department of Stat and other government agencies in more than sixty foreign languages. The School is responsible for the diverse and complex mission of language training for employees of the State Department and other US Government agencies. The School of Language Studies consists of approximately 250 technical and professional personnel and trains and tests over 500 students at any given time. Interested sources must be eligible to work in the United States and be educated native speakers of the language they intend to teach. Individuals should possess the cultural background of the specific country or geographical region required. Must have spent their formative years in the cultural environment and have been schooled there through the equivalent of American secondary school. Preferably the instructor will have lived and/or worked in the specifid language and cultural environment for at least 24 months in the past ten years, with at least twelve months of continuous residence preferred. Individuals should be experience language professionals with a demonstrated record of managerial experience. The Foreign Service Institute is seeking interested sources for a wide variety of training work schedules or occasional, intermittent training activities. The settings within which the training is conducted include large and small group classrooms many of which are equipped with video cassette recording and playback capabilities; audio laboratories, including multimedia workstations equipped with audio tape recorders, videotape recorders, videodisc players, CD-ROM drives; an Internet lab; testing rooms; and a Library. A typical class may have one to six students, although groups may range up to twenty. Please send expressions of interest to: Foreign Service Institute, ATTN: Betty Waters, GSACQ, 4000 Arlington Blvd., Arlington, VA 22204 Posted 07/14/99 (W-SN353801). (0195)

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