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What Shall It Be, Asks Hocking--Literature or Basketball?

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Hocking, Elton – Foreign Language Beacon, 1967

Attention is focused on (1) the chronic failure to attract a larger percentage of the student population, especially male students, and (2) the perennially high rate of attrition in intermediate and advanced language courses in secondary schools. The merits of offering the teaching of contemporary foreign culture as an alternative to the…

Descriptors: Cultural Education, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Enrollment Influences