This volume is designed as a practical handbook that provides guidelines for teams of evaluators investigating a department or language program or individual teachers or language program directors seeking to better understand the content and context of their programs or courses. Although the volume focuses on postsecondary foreign language…

Knowledge of foreign languages is one of the factors facilitating cultural, economic, technical, and scientific cooperation among the Member States of the European Community. For this reason it is important that there be an awareness of the situation about the teaching and learning of modern languages in schools of the Member States. The…