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How America Got Its Foreign Language Gap.
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Girouard, Robert L. – Modern Language Journal, 1980
Echoes the concern expressed in the Report of the President's Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies, decrying declining enrollments in foreign language programs. Analyzes the causes of this decline by reviewing recent historical events and cultural trends, and suggests that it is matched by a decline in English verbal aptitudes.…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Educational Planning, Ethnocentrism, International Relations