Becoming Equipped to Communicate (BEC)

n nBecoming Equipped to Communicate (BEC) is a language and culture learning curriculum. The BEC progressively leads learners into broader and deeper local relationships as the learners advance through the learning levels with the associated community-based activities. Even as learners grow in local relationships, BEC helps them move through key areas of culture toward a thematic worldview understanding of the local culture and language community. This approach provides learners with a robust foundation for effective communication and language development work. n n nn nBy the end of the BEC curriculum, learners who have followed the program will have cultivated many significant relationships in their new community as a part of identifying key themes of life in the worldview around them. In this sense, BEC acts as much more than a language learning program. Through this resource, cross-cultural workers grow to become a normal part of the life of the culture and language community: learning to understand, speak, read, write, and naturally interact in order to take an active and relevant role in people's lives for focused relationship-building and language development purposes.n n nn The BEC curriculum: nn -Explains the necessary foundations for deep communication nn -Provides a comprehensive scope, sequence, and time schedule for the entire trajectory of culture and language learning nn -Leads cross-cultural workers through successive levels of community-based activities that help them build deep relationships with others nn -Includes detailed, step-by-step learning plans for each level nn -Gives practical advice so that learners at any level can use the curriculum to continue to progress nn -Includes self-evaluation checklists for each level in order to monitor learner progress nn -Guides the learning process such that workers reach worldview-level communicative ability by the end of the curriculum nn n nn