Kindergarteners and Parents

1. Americans approve of FLES programs. A national survey conducted in 1979 by the University of Michigan Research Center showed that 40 percent of all Americans believe that foreign languages should be required in the elementary school and more than 75 percent think that foreign languages should at least be offered in the elementary school.' The study ordered by the President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies revealed that most Americans cannot speak any language but English and only 30 percent of the American public has studied a foreign language at school. Still the attitudes toward language study are positive. Congress2 too, in its Resolution 301 approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on 17 November 1980 and by the U.S. Senate on 8 December 1980 stated that local educational agencies and institutions of higher education should consider strengthening the study of foreign languages and cultures through appropriate actions, including the placing of greater emphasis on the teaching of foreign languages and cultures for elementary school children

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