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CL-150 PLATFORM CAPABILITIES OVERVIEW Specialized Language-Centric Technology Platform

TRANSPARENT LANGUAGEFall/Winter 2019

WHO IS TRANSPARENT LANGUAGE?

Language Learning with a Purpose

© 2018 Transparent Language, Inc.

THE CL-150 PLATFORM

• Specialized digital platform

• Integrated web and mobile technology

• Dedicated language instruction and learning

• Support U.S. military and intelligence requirements

• Career-long language sustainment and enhancement

SUPPORT 220+ LANGUAGES/DIALECTS CONTENT IN 130+ LANGUAGES/DIALECTS


Abkahz Afrikaans Albanian Altai Amharic Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, Sudanese Arabic, Syrian Arabic, Yemeni Armenian Asturian Aymara Azerbaijani Balinese Baluchi Bambara Bashkir Basque Belarusian Bemba Bengali Blackfoot Bosnian Breton Bulgarian Buriat Burmese Cambodian (Khmer) Catalan Cebuano

Chamorro Chavacano Chechen Cherokee Cheyenne Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, Mandarin Cornish Cree Croatian Czech Dakota Danish Dari Denisuline Dinka Dutch English English, British Esperanto Estonian Even Faroese Farsi Fijian Finnish Flemish French French, Canadian French, Congolese French, Moroccan Frisian Fulani Galician

Georgian German Greek Guarani Gujarati Gwich’in Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Holicachuk Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igala Igbo Ilocano Indonesian Inuktitut Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kalmyk Kanuri Kaqchikel Kazakh Kituba Koasati Kongo Korean Koyukon Kurdish, Kurmanji

Kurdish, Sorani Kyrgyz Lao Latin Latvian Lingala Lithuanian Luganda Luxembourgish Macedonian Maguindanao Malagasy Malay Maori Maranao Maya Menominee Mirandese Mohawk Mongolian Nahuatl Nepali Nogai Norwegian Oji-Cree Ojibwe Pashto Pidgin English Piipaash Pijin Polish Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, European Provencal

Punjabi, Gurmukhi Punjabi, Shahmukhi Quechua, Ecuadorian Quechua, Southern Romanian Romansch Romany Ruanda Russian Samoan Scottish Gaelic Sepedi Serbian Shona Sicilian Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Sorbian Sotho Spanish, Castilian Spanish, Colombian Spanish, Latin American Swahili Swazi Swedish Tagalog Tahitian Tajiki Tamasheq Tamil

Tanana, Lower Tausug Tetum Thai Tigrinya Tohono O’odham Tok Pisin Tongan Tswana Turkish Turkmen Tuvan Ukrainian Urdu Uyghur Uzbek Uzbek, Latin Vietnamese Welsh Wolof Xhosa Yakan Yiddish Yoruba Yupic, Central (Yungtun)

Zarma Zulu

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) 30+

Amharic* Arabic Levantine Arabic, Modern Standard Bengali Bosnian Burmese Chinese, Mandarin - Simplified Chinese, Mandarin - TraditionalCzech Dari Farsi French GeorgianGerman Greek

Haitian Creole Hindi HmongIndonesian Italian JapaneseKorean Latvian Lithuanian MalayNorwegianPashtoPolish Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, European

RussianRomanian SomaliSpanish, Latin AmericanSwahili Tagalog Thai* Turkish Urdu Uzbek - CyrillicVietnamese*

*Includes English “Essentials” Course

English for Speakers of…


Orientation TypeOrientation

Length

CLPM Orientation

On-site training on command policy integration & reports • 6 hours

Mentor & Instructor Certification

• Online CL-150 Pre-certification Course

• On-site training (demo and hands-on-work)

• Annual CL-150 re-certification

• 3 hours

• 6 hours

• 3 hours

IT Personnel Orientation

Tech orientation & monthly technology check (by phone) • 30 minutes

Learner Orientation

• Instructor-led orientation conducted during in-processing

USER TRAINING & SUPPORT


TRAINING & MATERIAL

• Help videos

• Bulletins and Updates

• Downloadable Handouts and Briefs


CL-150 FEATURES BY USER

CL-150 LEARNERS’

PERSPECTIVE & EXPERIENCE

WELCOME TO THE CL-150 PLATFORM

• Learn anytime, anywhere on

any Internet-connected device.

• Build & sustain a robust lexical reservoir.

• Refresh algorithms prompt learners

via notifications.

• Practice learning modalities:

• Listening

• Reading

• Writing

• Speaking

• Seamlessly transition from beginner learner

(school house) to career-long sustainer.


THE MOBILE APPS

“Get the App” to use the CL-150 on smartphones and tablets.


CROSS-PLATFORM SYNCHRONIZATION

CL-150 learning is synced

across a wide variety of

devices.

• Learned vocab data

• User scores and progress

• Assignments and lessons

added to the Learning Path

• All time spent:

• Learning

• Refreshing Vocab

• Practicing

• Testing


DAILY REFRESHER

• Sign up to receive refresh notifications.

• Sustain proficiency on your laptop or on the go.


ASSIGNMENTS & MESSAGES

• Sign up to receive assignments notifications.


WELCOME TO THE CL-150 PLATFORM


YOUR PERSONAL DASHBOARD

Three main areas help

personalize and organize

learning:

1. My Learning Path

2. Learned Vocab

3. Practice


MY LEARNING PATH

• Assignments from instructors

• Lessons student adds from

“Browse” tab


BROWSE TAB

• Archive of additional

learning resources

• Cohort lessons by

language/level

• Alphabet courses

• Grammar references

• School content:

• HLC Content

• DLI Russian Basic

Course

• …etc.


LEARNED VOCAB

• Access lexical reservoir.

• Learned vocab constantly grows!

• Tracks fresh and staleitems.

• Prompts learners to refresh stale items.

• Lengthen retention and stabilize memory.


PRACTICE

• Practice learning

modalities:

• Listening

• Reading

• Speaking

• Writing

• Test yourself on any

learned vocab.

• Tracked and counted

toward learning time!


EVERYVOICE™ TECHNOLOGY

Speech analysis available in every speaking activity!


SAMPLE VOCAB ACTIVITIES

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LEARNER REPORTING TAB

• Add journal entries

• Run reports on your work


JOURNAL ENTRIES

Track work done outside the system

• Read a news report

• Watched a video in language

• Listened to a podcast

Available on desktop or mobile!

SELF-REPORTINGMy Activity Report – get detailed information on your CL-150 activity.

Journal Entry Report – get detailed information on self-reported time.

(Available on all devices!)


CL-150 INSTRUCTORS’


CL-150 INSTRUCTOR TRAINING

• Orientation into

the CL-150 platform

• Tech tutorial and

step-by-step

instructions

• Intro to our DABL

methodology

(Declaratively Accelerated

Blended Learning)

• Virtual and face-to-face

follow-up trainings and

hands-on work


INSTRUCTOR FEATURES

• Author your own lessons

• Create classes

• Assign lessons

• Leverage existing lessons

• Subscribe to other instructor

classes

• Subscribe to Cohorts

• Message students

• Run reports on student work


AUTHOR YOUR OWN LESSONS


Vocab Authoring – create vocab lessons

LessonGin Authoring – create text-based lessons

VOCAB AUTHORING• Import vocab lists (Excel/Word)… OR

• Create vocab lists in our tool… OR

• Use any of the vocab lessons available!

• Domain-specific or general vocabulary

• Add translations

• Add grammar or culture notes

• Add authentic audio

• Add images

• In 130+ languages/dialects

LESSONGIN AUTHORING


Quickly create timely, authentic, text-based lessons

(with source attribution).

• Initial acquisition AND sustainment

• Current events, culture, history, etc.

• General proficiency or domain-specific

• Curriculum-aligned lessons

• Many activities to choose from!

• In 80+ languages

LESSONGIN PDF


Print/Save Vocab PDFPrint/Save Lesson PDF

USER-CREATED CONTENT


New LessonGin lessons are published every day and available to all

CL-150 users!

CREATE CLASSES


• Create classes

• Import students

• CSV

• TXT

• Excel

• Send students link

to auto-enroll

SUBSCRIBE TO CLASSES & COHORTS


• Subscribe to other instructors’ classes

• Subscribe to Cohorts

• Students automatically receive

assignments… OR

• Instructors can manually approve

assignments

MAKE ASSIGNMENTS


• Assign lessons to classes

• Assign lessons you create or any lesson in the system!

• Add due dates

MESSAGE STUDENTS


RUN CLASS ACTIVITY REPORT


• Lists all students in the class

• Number of sessions for each student

• Time spent on assignments

• Time spent learning vocab

• Other time spent

(i.e. learning other content in the system)

• Self-reported time

• Assignment status

• Assessment status

• Learned Vocab (stale vs fresh items)

CL-150 ADMINISTRATORS’


ADMIN-LEVEL REPORTS


• For CLPMs, trainers, and other administrators

• Visibility into:

• Sustainment and enhancement efforts

• CL-150 platform usage

• Run reports on:

• Students

• Classes

• Instructors

• Program

• Run reports by:

• Date

• Learning activities

• Language

• Available formats:

• Download as CSV

• Download as PDF

• View online

• Set recurring reports to run ahead of time!

ADMIN-LEVEL REPORTS


Class Activity Report

• Detailed info on students’ work in the CL-150

Instructor Activity Report

• Detailed info on instructors’ work in the CL-150

Program Manager Report

• Detailed info on user activity in a specific language

REPORTING GROUPS


• Create and manage your own groups (parent groups & child groups)

• Closely monitor subset of CLPMs, students, instructors, etc.

• Visibility into CL-150 training and/or work.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES


CL-150 COHORTS• Weekly lesson stream

• Timely and authentic content

• 12 languages/dialects

• ILR levels 2, 2+, 3

• 2 = 2 lessons per week (6 hrs.)

• 2+ = 1 lesson per week (3 hrs.)

• 3 = 1 lesson per week (3 hrs.)

• Initial acquisition and sustainment

• Professionally relevant topics

• General proficiency

• Domain-specific (Narco, Cyber, Special Ops)

• Major International News Events

• Practice all learning modalities

• Learning is tracked and reported

• 51 lessons published per week

• Available to all CL-150 users


SAMPLE COHORT LESSON ACTIVITIES


CURRENT COHORTS


Language ILR 2 ILR 2+ ILR 3

Arabic (MS) ✔ ✔ ✔

Arabic (Levantine) ✔ ✔ ✔

Arabic (Iraqi) ✔ ✔ ✔

Farsi ✔ ✔ ✔

Pashto (Pakistani) ✔ ✔ ✔

Pashto (Afghan) ✔ ✔ ✔

Russian ✔ ✔ ✔

Chinese, Mandarin ✔ ✔ ✔

Korean (North) ✔ ✔ ✔

Spanish (Latin American) ✔ ✔ ✔

Hebrew ✔ ✔ ✔

Urdu ✔ ✔ ✔

Note: Proficiency

level refers to the

student’s expected

proficiency.

A student who’s

tested at the ILR 2/2

level should join an

ILR 2 Cohort lesson

stream.

ILR 1+ COHORTS REPOSITORY

©2019 Transparent Language, Inc.

• Previously published ILR 1+ Cohort lessons

• Available in the “Browse” tab

• Languages:• Arabic (Levantine)

• Arabic (MS)

• Chinese Mandarin

• Farsi

• French

• Indonesian

• Korean (South)

• Pashto (Afghan)

• Portuguese (Brazilian)

• Russian

• Spanish (Latin American)

• Tagalog

CL-150 PROFICIENCY TESTS


• Based on the ILR scale

• Computer-adaptive

• Multi-stage assessments

• 37 tests in 23 languages

• Measure general language proficiency

• Reading Comprehension

• Listening Comprehension

• Approx. 60 mins; instantly scored

• Practice for the DLPT

(Defense Language Proficiency Test)

CL-150 DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENTS


• Computer-adaptive assessments

• MSA and Persian (Farsi)

• 24 diagnostic tests

• 2 skills

• Reading

• Listening

• 3 strands

• Vocabulary

• Sentence Grammar

• Discourse Grammar

• 2 transition levels

• 1+ to 2

• 2+ to 3

• Results include

• Measurement scale

• ILR range

• Recommendations

WORD OF THE DAY


• General vocab

• 28 languages

• Authentic native-speaker audio

• Includes sample sentences with translations

• Receive words via email or RSS feed

• Word of the Day “courses” available in:

• MSA

• French

• German

• Italian

• Spanish

PHRASE OF THE DAY


• Topics

• Professional Linguist

• International relations; global topics

• Cyber Terrorism

• Cyber security; data breaches

• Special Ops

• Military cooperation; tactical vocab

• Languages

• Korean

• Mandarin Chinese (Simplified)

• Russian

• Smart media sources and SMEs

• High-level vocab, domain-specific phrases

• Authentic native-speaker audio

• Includes sample sentences with translations

BLOGS, FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, TWITTERUnder “More Online Resources”


UPCOMING FEATURES


• Collaborate on LessonGin lessons with other instructors.

• Specify daily, weekly, and monthly learning goals.

• Manage classes and students with members of your instructor team.

• Learn to write character-based languages with our character tracing activity.

• Immerse yourself in lessons with virtual reality activities.

12 Murphy Drive, Nashua, New Hampshire 03062 USA 1-800-538-8867© 2019 Transparent Language, Inc.

Matthew Carr Director for Defense Initiatives

Priscilla Colón

School & Faculty Support Manager

Questions, suggestions, ideas?

Contact the CL-150 Team at [email protected]

Lorie Roule

Senior Executive for Intelligence

Nasser Manasterli

CL-150 Program Manager &

Technology Integration Specialist

Gail Joy

Government Accts Manager &

“Ops Chief”603-262-6380

Documents

CL-150 Capabilities BriefPashto Pid g in English Piipaash Pijin Polish Portuguese, B razilian ... learning: 1. My Learning Path 2. Learned Vocab ... • Lists all students in the class