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  3.    <title xmlns:ng="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng">Preface</title><meta xmlns:ng="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng" name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Standard Chinese"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Standard Chinese"><link rel="prev" href="pr01.html" title="Colophon"><link rel="next" href="pr03.html" title="Introduction"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Preface</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pr01.html">Prev</a>&nbsp;</td><th width="60%" align="center">&nbsp;</th><td width="20%" align="right">&nbsp;<a accesskey="n" href="pr03.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="preface"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a name="d5e18"></a>Preface</h1></div></div></div><p>Standard Chinese: A Modular Approach originated in an inter-agency conference held at
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  4.             the Foreign Service Institute in August 1973 to address the need generally felt in the
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  5.             U.S. Government language training community for improving and updating Chinese
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  6.             materials, to reflect current usage in Beijing and Taipei.</p><p> The conference resolved to develop materials which were flexible enough in form and
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  7.             content to meet the requirements of a wide range of government agencies and academic
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  8.             institutions. </p><p>A Project Board was established consisting of representatives of the Central
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  9.             Intelligence Agency Language Learning Center, the Defense Language Institute, the State
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  10.             Department's Foreign Service Institute, the Cryptologic School of the National Security
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  11.             Agency, and the U.S. Office of Education, later joined by the Canadian Forces Foreign
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  12.             Language School. The representatives have included Arthur T. McNeill, John Hopkins, and
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  13.             John Boag (CIA); Colonel John F. Elder III, Joseph C. Hutchinson, Ivy Gibian, and Major
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  14.             Bernard Muller-Thym (DLI); James R. Frith and John B. Ratliff III (FSI); Kazuo Shitama
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  15.             (NSA); Richard T. Thompson and Julia Petrov (OE); and Lieutenant Colonel George Kozoriz
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  16.             (CFFLS). </p><p>The Project Board set up the Chinese Core Curriculum Project in 1974 in space provided
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  17.             at the Foreign Service Institute. Each of the six U.S. and Canadian government agencies
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  18.             provided funds and other assistance. </p><p>Gerard P. Kok was appointed project coordinator, and a planning council was formed
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  19.             consisting of Mr. Kok, Frances Li of the Defense Language Institute, Patricia O&#8217;Connor
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  20.             of the University of Texas, Earl M. Rickerson of the Language Learning Center, and James
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  21.             Wrenn of Brown University. In the fall of 1977, Lucille A. Barale was appointed deputy
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  22.             project coordinator. David W. Dellinger of the Language Learning Center and Charles R.
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  23.             Sheehan of the Foreign Service Institute also served on the planning council and
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  24.             contributed material to the project. The planning council drew up the original overall
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  25.             design for the materials and met regularly to review their development. </p><p>Writers for the first half of the materials were John H. T. Harvey, Lucille A. Barale,
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  26.             and Roberta S. Barry, who worked in close cooperation with the planning council and with
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  27.             the Chinese staff of the Foreign Service Institute. Mr. Harvey developed the
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  28.             instructional formats of the comprehension and production self-study materials, and also
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  29.             designed the communications classroom activities and wrote the teacher's guides. Lucille
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  30.             A. Barale and Roberta S. Barry wrote the tape scripts and the student text. By 1978
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  31.             Thomas E. Madden and Susan C. Pola had joined the staff. Led by Ms. Barale, they have
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  32.             worked as a team to produce the materials subsequent to Module 6.</p><p>All Chinese language material was prepared or selected by Chuan 0. Chao, Ying-chi
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  33.             Chen, Hsiao-Jung Chi, Eva Diao, Jan Hu, Tsung-mi Li, and Yunhui C. Yang, assisted for
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  34.             part of the time by Chieh-fang Ou Lee, Ying-ming Chen, and Joseph Yu Hsu Wang. Anna
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  35.             Affholder, Mei-li Chen, and Henry Khuo helped in the preparation of a preliminary corpus
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  36.             of dialogues.</p><p> Administrative assistance was provided at various times by Vincent Basciano, Lisa A.
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  37.             Bowden, Jill W. Ellis, Donna Fong, Renee T. C. Liang, Thomas E. Madden, Susan C. Pola,
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  38.             and Kathleen Strype. </p><p>The production of tape recordings was directed by Jose M. Ramirez of the Foreign
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  39.             Service Institute Recording Studio. The Chinese script was voiced by Ms. Chao, Ms. Chen,
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  40.             Mr. Chen, Ms. Diao, Ms. Hu, Mr. Khuo, Mr. Li, and Ms. Yang. The English script was read
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  41.             by Ms. Barale, Ms. Barry, Mr. Basciano, Ms. Ellis, Ms. Pola, and Ms. Strype. </p><p>The graphics were produced by John McClelland of the Foreign Service Institute
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  42.             Audio-Visual staff, under the general supervision of Joseph A. Sadote, Chief of
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  43.             Audio-Visual.</p><p> Standard Chinese: A Modular Approach was field-tested with the cooperation of Brown
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  44.             University; the Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center; the Foreign Service
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  45.             Institute; the Language Learning Center; the United States Air Force Academy; the
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  46.             University of Illinois; and the University of Virginia. </p><p>Colonel Samuel L. Stapleton and Colonel Thomas G. Foster, Commandants of the Defense
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  47.             Language Institute, Foreign Language Center, authorized the DLIFLC support necessary for
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  48.             preparation of this edition of the course materials. This support included coordination,
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  49.             graphic arts, editing, typing, proofreading, printing, and materials necessary to carry
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  50.             out these tasks.</p><p>
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  51.             <span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="../../FSI-Chinese-MOD1-Textbook/Images/0021-FSI-StandardChinese-Module01ORN-StudentText-1.png" align="right"></span></p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pr01.html">Prev</a>&nbsp;</td><td width="20%" align="center">&nbsp;</td><td width="40%" align="right">&nbsp;<a accesskey="n" href="pr03.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Colophon&nbsp;</td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top">&nbsp;Introduction</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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