Module 5 Military Writing in Military Operations

This curriculum provides a broad framework by which students may gain not only a more nuanced understanding of the myriad challenges that operational writing presents, but also a deeper knowledge in professional English terminology concerning the genre of military writing. This module helps learners develop specialized English language competence and skills professionally needed to understand and produce the specialised terminology in written products, required in a specialized multinational environment.

The thematic components of the module are intended to present a smooth gradual development of the issues of operational writing in a linear manner from unit to unit.

The Module’s content is organised in five Units of thematic topics, each subdivided into two methodological blocks: one, which consists of teacher assisted class work on terminology acquisition and practice, grammar review, speaking and writing, and the second block, which focuses on self-study practice on integrating language competences and skills.

1. Patrol Reports
2. Report Writing
3. After Action Review
4. Correspondence
5. The Intelligence Cycle

COURSE CURRICULUM

The contents of Module 5 are distributed in five units of thematic topics. Each unit consists of 6 periods. They are further subdivided into 2 methodological blocks of 3 periods each: one comprising of 3 hours teacher-assisted class work on vocabulary development, pronunciation, and grammar review, and one block of 3 hours self-study practice on listening, writing, and integrated language skills. Each period has a duration of 45 minutes.

This curriculum is composed of open-source materials, and therefore does not contain classified information.

Thematic Goal The thematic goals of this topic are to provide a summary of different reports with numerous acronyms and specialized terminology, to understand the operational environment, different kinds of military correspondence and how one should adapt their language thereafter, as well as providing a basic understanding of the intelligence circle.

Learning objectives: In this unit, students will acquire new vocabulary and terms used in the operational field, will learn about different elements of speech, word formation, collocations, and will practice pronunciation and the acquisition of active vocabulary.

Outcomes: Students will acquire specific terminology associated with the operational environments, and different reports existing in the environments. Students should be able to integrate what they have learned into production/communicative exercises.

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