Language Training Center

The Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University is proud to host the Indiana University Language Training Center. The capacity and historical legacy of Indiana University in language instruction, regional expertise, and service to the nation is unparalleled. Through the Language Training Center, Indiana University leverages its resources to train language instructors to deliver critical language and regional expertise courses to the Armed Forces.The Language Training Center also offers partner units alternative delivery systems for regional expertise and culture training by creating asynchronous modules available through the Special Operations Forces Teletraining System (SOFTS) and IU Expand. The Language Training Center also serves as a pedagogy resource to partner units that integrate VR systems into training programs.

The Language Training Center delivers onsite synchronous initial acquisition and sustainment language and culture training for active-duty military and reserve personnel with the 3rd, 7th, and 10th Special Forces Groups, and the 95th Civil Affairs Brigade.

The FY 2022-2023 schedule is as follows:

Teaching Pedagogy

All of our courses are derived by standards-based methodologies and communicative approaches. Our instructors are experienced and trained in backward curriculum design, student-centered instruction, and maximizing the use of target language in the classroom. All enhancement and sustainment students take entry and exit OPI exams. Pre Deployment students are assessed through in class scenarios. Regional Expertise and Culture students are assessed through knowledge checks built into the course.

Asynchronous Trainings on IU Expand

The Indiana University Language Training Center hosts asynchronous Regional Expertise and Culture Courses on Hungary and Estonia that can be made available to Active Duty Units at no cost. For more information, please email Joey Bradshaw at bradshjm@iu.edu.

The Language Training Centers Program is an initiative sponsored by the Defense Language and National Security Education Office and administered by the Institute of International Education.