scholarly journals BOOK REVIEW Book Author: Kathleen Stein-Smith. Book title: The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit: Strategies for Maintaining a Competitive Edge in a Globalized World. Year of Publication: (2016). Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck, New Jersey, USA. Book pages: 123 pp. Book ISBN 978-3-319-34158-3

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Forough Rahimi ◽  
Gholam Shahisavandi
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Book Title ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Teaching Language ◽  
Language Deficit ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The U.S

Kathleen Stein-Smith’s The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit: Strategies for Maintaining a Competitive Edge in a Globalized World is an attempt to outline a comprehensive and organized model for one of the recent trends in the field of teaching language and the importance of language.

scholarly journals Cosmopolitanism and Multilingualism in a Globalized World: Perspectives on the Lack of Foreign Language Learning in the US

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 871-877
Author(s):  
Kathleen Stein-Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Language Deficit ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Us ◽  
Globalized World

Although cosmopolitanism has a long history, it has become even more relevant in the global era and, especially, since the COVID-19 global pandemic has made communication and understanding across cultures more important than ever. Multilingualism is the essential cosmopolitan skill and tool, empowering those who are proficient in one or more additional languages to understand, and to communicate and interact with others more effectively. The United States suffers from a foreign language deficit, and there is an urgent need to build both motivation and interest in other languages along with sustainable skills in other languages in the US. Steps to effectively address this deficit include prioritizing language learning and use, and providing the opportunity to all interested students to learn one or more additional languages.

Intentional Foreign Language Advocacy: Skills Set, Mindset, and Core Value

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
Kathleen Stein-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
The United States ◽  
Language Deficit ◽  
Core Value ◽  
Effective Advocacy ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Foreign Language Skills

Although a nation of immigrants and although more than 60M speak a language other than English in the home, the United States suffers from a foreign language deficit, in which demand for foreign language skills exceeds supply, and where opportunity to learn another language is actually decreasing. Compared to Europe for example, a significantly smaller percentage of US students study another language, and language study typically begins later. In order to build the foreign language skills needed in the workplace, in the globalized world, and in our society, all students should have the opportunity to learn another language, and in order to increase opportunity, advocacy is needed to promote language learning and to support and defend endangered programs.  Effective advocacy needs to be not only strategic, but intentional, a mindset and skills set stemming from a core value of making the world a better place through our everyday actions.

The Importance of Intercultural Communicative Competences for Tourism Labour Market: Students’ Views and their Self-Assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-117
Author(s):  
Zuzana Sándorová
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The Given

Abstract The present paper is founded on two pillars. Firstly, it is one of the current trends in education worldwide, i.e. to connect theory and practice. Secondly, it is the need to be interculturally competent speakers of a foreign language in today’s globalized world of massive migration flows and signs of increasing ethnocentrism. Based upon these two requirements, the ability to communicate in a FL effectively and interculturally appropriately in the tourism industry is a must, since being employed in whichever of its sectors means encountering other cultures on a daily basis. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to find out undergraduate tourism students’ opinion on the importance of intercultural communicative competences for their future profession as well as their self-assessment in the given field. The findings of the research, which are to be compared to employers’ needs, revealed that there is considerable difference between the respondents’ views on the significance of the investigated issues and their self-esteem.

USE OF INNOVATIVE TEACHING METHODS IN RUSSIAN LESSONS IN GROUPS WITH A NON-RUSSIAN TEACHING LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-212
Author(s):  
Nigora Vokhidova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Interactive Communication ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Teaching Language ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Russian Language

The article discusses the effectiveness of innovative approaches in teaching Russian as a foreign language. It is noted that the use of new methods makes it possible to take into account the knowledge already acquired by the student for studying the Russian language and developing creative skills. The role of such a form of training as group work is shown, and some methods of interactive communication between students in practical classes in the Russian language are considered

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