African-American students' opinions about foreign language study: An exploratory study of low enrollments at the college level

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 191-199

  Moore, Zena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans and foreign language education; Low enrollments; Minorities and foreign languages

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846383744     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2005.tb02484.x     Document Type: Article

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