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Peer reviewedBerman, Russell A.; Bernhardt, Elizabeth; Castro-Klaren, Sara; Chaput, Patricia R.; DeJean, Joan; Harper, Jane; Henning, Sylvie Debevec; Hunter, Paul; Kaplan, Edward K.; Kirkpatrick, Susan; Lindenberger, Herbert; Ozzello, Yvonne; Marks, Elaine; Patrikis, Peter C.; Peck, Jeffrey; Schor, Naomi; Trommler, Frank; Valis, Noel; Wood, Richard J.; Ziolkowski, Theodore – ADFL Bulletin, 1998
Nineteen responses to an article on the leadership crisis in the field of foreign languages and literatures are presented. Most agree with the article, expanding on its scope or extending its argument; some offer new directions to resolve the problem. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Departments, Educational Trends, Higher Education
O'Donnell, Teresa D. – ESL Magazine, 2001
Focuses on the accreditation of English language programs and institutions that serve non-native speakers of English, highlighting the role of the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA). Examines why CEA accreditation is important, what it entails, and why program's seek it. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Second Language Programs, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Peer reviewedFukushima, Tatsuya – Foreign Language Annals, 2002
Discusses a technology-based project as a requirement for a traditional intermediate Japanese course at the University of Arkansas in which students worked in a small group to produce the university's promotional video in the target language, thus enhancing their Japanese language skills and promoting the program to the public. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Higher Education, Japanese, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedKern, Richard – ADFL Bulletin, 2002
Focuses on literacy as a way of creating and interpreting meaning through texts that are taught within the larger framework of communicative-based language learning. Notes that literacy involves critical reflection on the relations of text and context, and offers seven principles that apply literacy to teaching and span the gap between the…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Higher Education, Literacy
Peer reviewedBerman, Russell A. – ADFL Bulletin, 2002
Calls on foreign language departments to take a closer look at a long-standing component of their curriculum: culture. The discussion focuses on language and culture, teaching foreign cultures, and foreign cultures, transnationality, and globalization. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Departments
Peer reviewedBerman, Russell A. – ADFL Bulletin, 2000
Discusses opinions toward foreign language (FL) departments on the college campus. Points out that while there is support for the learning of foreign languages, questions arise about whether knowing a language other than English is necessary, even in the climate of globalization and internationalization. Outlines steps for achieving excellence in…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Departments, Higher Education, Public Opinion
Peer reviewedNichols, Geraldine Cleary – ADFL Bulletin, 2000
This article focuses on the paucity of resources usually designated for rising numbers of students in Spanish courses as enrollments dwindle in other languages. Offers advice on how the strength of Spanish can be deployed to help other languages. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Enrollment Trends, Higher Education, Language Enrollment
Peer reviewedKadish, Doris Y. – ADFL Bulletin, 2000
Suggests the need for incentives to help combat the resistance or indifference regarding implementation of the national standards for foreign language learning at the university level, especially in upper division courses at large research universities. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Second Language Programs, Departments, Higher Education
Direct linkMasse, Michelle A., Ed.; Hogan, Katie J., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2010
All tenured and tenure-track faculty know the trinity of promotion and tenure criteria: research, teaching, and service. While teaching and research are relatively well-defined areas of institutional focus and evaluation, service work is rarely tabulated or analyzed as a key aspect of higher education's political economy. Instead, service, silent…
Descriptors: Tenure, Females, Labor, Rewards
Download full textLin, Grace Hui Chin; Chien, Paul Shih-chieh – Online Submission, 2010
Teaching English became a professional and academic field from a half century ago. Many researches for teacher education and teacher training have been conducted in order to raise the English as well as the foreign language trainers' knowledge and capabilities in carrying out effective lessons in classroom. During second millennium of speedily…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Global Approach, Global Education
Bollag, Burton – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Recently, the Modern Language Association (MLA) called for a major reorganization of undergraduate academic programs and even the structure of foreign-language departments. Typically, the initial two years of language instruction are taught by non-tenure-track instructors with little or no voice in the department. Faculty members mainly teach the…
Descriptors: Language Skills, College Faculty, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Spurling, Steven; Seymour, Sharon; Chisman, Forrest P. – Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy (NJ1), 2008
This report presents the findings of a longitudinal study of English as a Second Language (ESL) students at the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) conducted during the summer of 2007. The study used College records to track all students who first enrolled in CCSF's credit and non-credit ESL programs in 1998, 1999, and 2000 for seven years …
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Adult Education, English (Second Language), Community Colleges
Moulden, H. – 1978
Students of English as a second language at a French engineering college participated in an experimental program which allotted to independent study a portion of the time previously given over to classroom instruction. Spoken language was emphasized in this self-instructional component. The program, which was new at the time of publication, is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Language Programs, Educational Media, Educational Objectives
Loew, Richard S. – 1975
The language media laboratory described in this proposal is intended to provide for the implementation of broader instructional objectives than language laboratories of previous years, including the dial access type. The proposal is divided into three main sections: (1) program rationale; (2) programs and services; and (3) design of the language…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Centers, Audiovisual Instruction, College Language Programs, Educational Media
The Hawaii Language Teacher, 1966
Results of the professional preparation sections of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Cooperative Foreign Language Tests coupled with the findings of National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Institutes provide most of the background for these implications. Teacher ability to detect error in written and oral work and the correlation of language…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, College Language Programs
