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Diao, Wenhao; Liu, Hsuan-Ying – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
Focusing on five initially committed learners of Chinese who decide to quit the language during their college freshman year, this study is a critique of the institutional structure that disengages foreign language education in American postsecondary schools. The findings reveal three structural issues that may contribute to the declining…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
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Horwood, E. K. – Babel, 1972
Revised version of a paper read at La Trobe University Language Teaching Seminar, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, in April 1972. (DS)
Descriptors: Charts, Dropouts, Language Enrollment, Language Instruction
Dusel, John P. – 1969
A questionnaire for students discontinuing their foreign language study is presented along with suggestions for its administration and use as a diagnostic tool for administrators. The brief form covers such factors as--(1) reasons for dropping the language, (2) availability of advanced courses, (3) notions of fluency, (4) student objectives, (5)…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
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