Fostering foreign language proficiency:What the U.S. can learn from other countries

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 226-228

  Christian, Donna ^a   Pufahl, Ingrid ^b   Rhodes, Nancy C ^b  

^a CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS   (United States)

^b CAL   (Turkey)

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EID: 28444457255     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170508700315     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. John Jarvis, "Foreign Language Study a Must Today," The Republican (Springfield, Mass.), 7 March 2005.
2. U.S. Senate, Year of Foreign Language Study, 109th Cong., 1st sess., S. Res. 28, 1 February 2005.
3. See, for example, The Complete Curriculum: Ensuring a Place for the Arts and Foreign Languages in America's Schools (Alexandria, Va.: National Association of State Boards of Education, 2003);
4. Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century (Lawrence, Kan.: National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project, 1999);
5. and "National Language Conference Results Announced," news release, U.S. Department of Defense, 4 June 2004.
6. "Poll Reveals Solutions to America's Language Gap," press release, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 7 December 2004.
7. Ingrid Pufahl, Nancy C. Rhodes, and Donna Christian, Foreign Language Teaching What the United States Can Learn from Other Countries (Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 2000). The nations surveyed were Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Spain, and Thailand.
8. Bernard Spolsky and Elana Shohamy, Languages of Israel: Policy, Ideology, and Practice (Clevedon, U.K.: Multilingual Matters, 1999).
9. Douglas F. Gilzow and Luanda E. Branaman, Lessons Learned: Model Early Foreign Language Programs (Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 2000).