Round table conferences: D. Modern foreign languages: The final aim of modern foreign-language study in secondary education

The MLA and the Study of Foreign Languages

PMLA ◽

10.2307/462213 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 99 (3) ◽

pp. 340-355 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robert G. Mead

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Foreign Languages ◽

Modern Language Association ◽

Easy Task ◽

Modern Language ◽

Foreign Language Study ◽

Language Study

In surveying the contributions of the Modern Language Association of America to the teaching and study of foreign languages in our country, especially during the last three decades, I hope to recapture the mood and spirit of past events and to pay tribute to those colleagues who took leading parts in them. This is not an easy task, but it is a welcome and a challenging one. Many of these colleagues are deceased, others are retired, and few if any of us during those intensely active years, I suspect, gave much thought to the task of gathering materials and memories for a chronicle of the MLA's role in the development of foreign language study. But it was an inspired and inspiring time—one happier than the present for education in our country—and I am grateful for the opportunity to set down a brief, personal, and inevitably incomplete memoir.

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Languages and the National Interest

PMLA ◽

10.2307/2699352 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 75 (2) ◽

pp. 25-29

Author(s):

Franklin D. Murphy

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

National Interest ◽

Foreign Languages ◽

Recent Past ◽

National History ◽

Foreign Language Study ◽

Language Study

Probably never in our national history has there been such a positive interest in the study of foreign languages. I use the word positive deliberately, for I am sure all of us can identify points of negative interest in this matter, even in our recent past, to the extent that, in some quarters, the disappearance of foreign language study in this country was actually considered inevitable and desirable.

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A Summary and Interpretation of the Modern Foreign Language StudyA Summary of Reports on the Modern Foreign Languages Issued by the Modern Foreign Language Study and the Canadian Committee on Modern Languages. Robert Herndon Fife

The School Review ◽

10.1086/439236 ◽

1931 ◽

Vol 39 (8) ◽

pp. 631-633

Author(s):

Myrtle Violet Sundeen

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Foreign Languages ◽

Foreign Language Study ◽

Language Study

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Teaching English As A Foreign Language To Students With Learning Disabilities

The American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations ◽

10.37547/tajssei/volume03issue04-59 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 03 (04) ◽

pp. 385-388

Author(s):

Razzakova Gulchekhra Rustamovna ◽

Keyword(s):

Learning Disabilities ◽

High School Students ◽

Foreign Language ◽

Language Instruction ◽

Foreign Languages ◽

Foreign Language Instruction ◽

Students With Learning Disabilities ◽

School Students ◽

Foreign Language Study ◽

Language Study

Foreign language study is an increasingly prominent part of education everywhere. Not only are high school students nearly always required to study a foreign language, but many lower and middle schools have added foreign languages to their curricula, whether as enrichment or a requirement. While it has long been recognized in the learning disabilities field that foreign language study would be a terrific challenge to learning disabled students, somehow this fact has been widely ignored in the field of foreign language instruction and in schools in general until very recently. The following article looks into the ways to teach foreign languages to students with learning disabilities.

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A Look Back: The U.S. foreign language problem, as covered in Kappan

Phi Delta Kappan ◽

10.1177/0031721720903820 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 101 (5) ◽

pp. 5-7

Author(s):

Teresa Preston

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

Language Instruction ◽

Foreign Languages ◽

Foreign Language Instruction ◽

Language Problem ◽

Foreign Language Study ◽

Look Back ◽

Language Study ◽

The U.S

In this monthly Kappan column, Teresa Preston shares a sampling of what past Kappan authors have written about foreign language instruction U.S. schools. Although it is not a topic that has appeared frequently in Kappan, concern about a lack of such instruction goes back at least as far as the 1930s. Although authors have generally agreed about the need for more foreign language study, disputes have emerged about which languages to study and what methods are most effective for teaching foreign languages. Authors have, however, agreed that language study should start earlier than it generally does.

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