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Direct linkMegan Bowler – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2025
Formal language learning has fallen dramatically in recent years even as the UK has become more diverse. In this report, Megan Bowler from the University of Oxford considers the benefits that learning a language provides and assesses the current state of play in schools and universities. She ends with 10 practical recommendations for rejuvenating…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Declining Enrollment, Language Skills, Teacher Recruitment
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Download full textPimpuang, Kowit; Yuttapongtada, Methawee – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
The objectives of this research article were to study the relations of Sanskrit to English, to investigate English words identified as of Sanskrit origin which are loanwords in the Thai language and to explore the effects of using WordWall gamification for English words of Sanskrit origin in Thai learning. The samples consisted of seven master's…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, Thai, Intervention
Rajeev Kumaramkandath – Higher Education Forum, 2024
The paper examines how new age pedagogies and neoliberal policies consciously work towards "naturalizing" English language's hegemony in institutions of Higher Education (IHE) in India. An ethnographic study the paper foregrounds the precarious positioning of non-English Indian languages "vis-à-vis" the pervading discourses of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Le, Uy-Di Nancy, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2018
This year's conference theme, "Be Seen, Be Heard," reflected not only our goal of celebrating our achievements but also represented our intent of making sure everyone's voices are heard, especially during 2017's difficult political climate. The conference opened with a motivating address from Dean Laura E. Lyons, followed by an…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Graduate Students, Language Research, Linguistics
Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2019
Total enrollments (undergraduate and graduate) in languages other than English dropped by 9.2% between fall 2013 and fall 2016, as reported in the Modern Language Association's twenty-fifth language enrollment census. Despite the overall drop, there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5%) that mitigate somewhat the downward…
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Brod, Richard I. – Modern Language Association, 1978
This report is based on a questionnaire survey sent to the registrars of all two-year and four-year colleges and universities in the United States. Replies were received from 2,637 institutions, of which 2,374 reported registrations in one or more foreign languages. The fall 1977 survey shows a decline of 1.4% in total foreign language…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, College Language Programs, Colleges, Declining Enrollment
