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Schulz, Renate A. – ADFL Bulletin, 1981
Reviewing the President's Commission recommendations, urges language departments to: make language teaching, rather than literary scholarship, their top priority; make intensive or immersion language courses part of the regular curriculum options; develop common standards of proficiency assessment; foster interaction among themselves; support…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Instructional Materials

Stoekl, Allan – ADFL Bulletin, 1995
Discusses the teaching of French language, literature, and culture in light of the experiences and observations of Gustave Lanson, a professor of French at the University of Paris who taught as a visiting professor at Columbia University in 1911. It is argued that French studies as a discipline needs to emphasize the pluralistic, multicultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development

Bernhardt, Elizabeth B. – ADFL Bulletin, 1995
Discusses the dichotomy between foreign language and literature instruction, arguing that the objectives of the language curriculum are at odds with those of the literature curriculum; many students are not proficient enough to cope with many of the belles lettres texts without additional linguistic support; and students deserve linguistic support…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education

Gay-Crosier, Raymond – ADFL Bulletin, 1987
A chair of a university's department of Romance languages and literature addresses the status of two high priorities in the teaching of foreign languages: the integration of linguistics in the "new" curriculum; the continuing development of language teaching approaches in the classroom; and the commitment of foreign language programs in the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Second Language Programs, Department Heads, Educational Needs

Lewis, David W. P.; Godbey, Galen C. – ADFL Bulletin, 1984
Emphasizes the need for cooperation and resource sharing among university foreign language departments as a means of ensuring their survival and enhancing their academic offerings. Some of the goals that could be achieved through this strategy include: new educational opportunities, improved quality of programs, planned diversity, cost avoidance…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Educational Resources