The Improvement of Foreign Language Competency in the United States

Richard D. Lambert

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1987, vol. 490, issue 1, 9-19

Abstract: A great deal of discussion and planning is under way the purpose of which is to upgrade our national system of foreign language instruction. Out of that discussion has emerged a consensus on a few key points of leverage to supplement and improve the system. These include focusing on adult language needs; the development of consistent measures of individual and program performance; the elaboration of the technology of teaching upper-level language skills; and the establishment of empirically oriented experimental classrooms. To carry out this agenda, the creation of a national foreign language center is proposed.

Date: 1987
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