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Cleve, John Van; Willson, A. Leslie – 1993
This book addresses the problem of the future of Germanics as a field of study at colleges and universities in the United States. It is noted that the study of Germanics has been losing tens of thousands of students for the past 25 years, that this slide downward is no longer attracting enough attention from the Germanics community, and if it…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Enrollment Trends, German, German Literature
Prestel, David K. – 1992
This paper examines the integration of Business Russian into the Russian curriculum at Michigan State University (MSU) and the creation of a capstone sequence of Business Russian courses at the advanced level. The establishment of the basic goals of the school's business language instruction and the needs of the students are discussed. The paper…
Descriptors: Advertising, Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Course Content
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Brustein, William I. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2007
Confronted with a world that is strikingly different from what it was just a decade ago, the United States faces rapidly shifting economic, political, and national security realities and challenges. To respond to these changes it is essential that our institutions of higher education graduate globally competent students. This article addresses…
Descriptors: Higher Education, National Security, Study Abroad, Curriculum Design
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Benseler, David P.; Moore, Suzanne S. – Modern Language Journal, 1997
Presents an annual survey of doctoral degrees granted in foreign languages, literatures, cultures, linguistics and foreign language education in the United States. The report lists degrees in the fields of African Languages and Literatures, Asian Languages and Literatures, Celtic Languages and Literatures, Classics, Comparative Literature,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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Littlewood, William – Applied Linguistics, 1999
Discusses autonomy in language related to East-Asian contexts, describing autonomy in language learning, proposing a framework for learners in all contexts, examining three sources of sociocultural influence that could affect students' approaches to learning in East Asia, and considering attitudes and habits of learning that might result from such…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Lipski, John M. – Hispania, 1998
Examines the field of Spanish linguistics over 100 years, subdividing Spanish linguistics into several subdisciplines: historical grammar, descriptive phonetics, Spanish phonology, contrastive structures, descriptive grammar, Spanish syntax, specific Spanish dialectology, Spanish in Africa and Asia, sociolinguistics of Spanish-speaking societies,…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries