Foreign Languages on the Campus
Room for Improvement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9767150 |
|---|---|
| Authors | S FREDERICK STARR (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 532 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 138-148 |
| Publication date | 1994-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716294532001010 |
| OpenAlex | W2162023520 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
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
Attrition · Center (category theory · Demographic economics · Economics · Foreign language · Mathematics education · Political science · State (computer science · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Medicine · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |