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The Views of the American Founding Fathers on the Study of the Modern Foreign Languages.
Pentlin, Susan Lee – 1984
The Founding Fathers of the United States placed great importance on the learning of foreign languages and on excellence in reading and writing English. Sacrifices in the curriculum in favor of English were justified by the desire that Americans speak and write English as well as the British. Above all, the Founding Fathers were concerned with the…
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