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Download full textHocking, 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
EATON, ESTHER M. – 1963
AN INTERIM SURVEY DESIGNED TO SUPPLY STATISTICAL DATA TO ANYONE INVOLVED IN PLANNING AND EVALUATING FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IS PRESENTED IN THIS REPORT. FOREIGN LANGUAGE ENROLLMENTS BY PERCENT OF HIGH SCHOOL POPULATION, BY LANGUAGES, AND BY LANGUAGE LEVELS ARE TABULATED. FOREIGN LANGUAGE OFFERINGS ARE LISTED ACCORDING TO THE…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Consultants, Curriculum Guides, Enrollment Rate
Fearing, Percy – 1969
A case is advanced for nongraded foreign language classes as a possible solution to many current problems in foreign language instruction. Favorable results in several experimental nongraded programs in secondary schools and summer schools are cited. An excerpt from an article on ungraded classes in summer schools lists advantages to summer…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Flexible Scheduling, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Individualized Instruction
Papalia, Anthony, Ed.; Tursi, Joseph, Ed. – 1978
Six articles appear in this issue. "Foreign Languages in the United States--A Look into the Future," by Barbara Elling, cites several trends which will increase enrollment in language programs. Evidence is cited on the need for foreign language skills in business, government, and industry. "How to Survive in Spite of Tight Budgets, Increasing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Boards of Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), German
Bartley, Diana E. – 1968
In an attempt to deal with the current foreign language enrollment and learning problems created by the number of students who discontinue foreign language study after the sixth to eighth grade learning sequence, this pilot study seeks to identify, through the use of the Modern Language Aptitude Test and the Foreign Language Attitude Scale with…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Articulation (Education), Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
Teitelbaum, Sidney L. – 1969
Designed to inform the profession about foreign language programs, methods, schedules, enrollments, and trends on Long Island, this report of a survey conducted in 1968 in 60 school districts, the Diocese of Brooklyn, and three parochial schools updates information gathered in a similar survey made in 1966. After a brief analysis under the general…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Data Analysis, FLES, Instructional Materials
