Foreign Languages on the Campus: Room for Improvement

S. Frederick Starr

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1994, vol. 532, issue 1, 138-148

Abstract: The 1980s witnessed substantial increases in enrollments in foreign language courses at American universities. Adjusted to take account of various factors, however, these increases are far from impressive and leave universities more monolingual than in the 1960s. Federal options for improving this are limited, but state and campus-based initiatives hold much promise. Generally, the emphasis should be on developing mastery by reducing attrition rather than on merely increasing gross enrollments at the introductory level.

Date: 1994
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716294532001010 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:anname:v:532:y:1994:i:1:p:138-148

DOI: 10.1177/0002716294532001010

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().