Internationalization at institutions of higher education in the United States results in greater linguistic diversity of the student body. Admission policies for international students include English proficiency standards which are meant to ensure that multilingual students for whom English is an additional language can function linguistically in…

Total enrollments (undergraduate and graduate) in languages other than English dropped by 9.2% between fall 2013 and fall 2016, as reported in the Modern Language Association's twenty-fifth language enrollment census. Despite the overall drop, there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5%) that mitigate somewhat the downward…

This report of one program and one person highlights several successful initiatives that resulted in the growth of the German Program at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. While the ideas reflect common best practices of many successful programs seeking to maintain their profile in today's educational environment, the energy, commitment and…

CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME ARE THE REVISED TEXTS FOR PARTS THREE AND FOUR OF AN ESSENTIALLY AUTOINSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMING PROJECT ORIGINALLY ENTITLED "SPOKEN FRENCH." REVISIONS WERE MADE TO REMEDY SOME OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL WEAKNESSES DETECTED IN USING THE ORIGINAL RECORDED MATERIALS EXPERIMENTALLY AND TO EXTEND THE AUDIOLINGUAL OBJECTIVES…