All tenured and tenure-track faculty know the trinity of promotion and tenure criteria: research, teaching, and service. While teaching and research are relatively well-defined areas of institutional focus and evaluation, service work is rarely tabulated or analyzed as a key aspect of higher education's political economy. Instead, service, silent…

Teaching English became a professional and academic field from a half century ago. Many researches for teacher education and teacher training have been conducted in order to raise the English as well as the foreign language trainers' knowledge and capabilities in carrying out effective lessons in classroom. During second millennium of speedily…

Recent years have seen the emergence of Web2.0, in which users are not only passive recipients of the featured content, but actively engaged in constructing it. Sites such as "Facebook" and "Myspace" are typical examples of this, as are blogs that allow users to present themselves online, to write about their daily lives or even to establish…

If good proficiency in L2 entails the acquisition not only of many single words but of many lexical chunks as well, it must then be asked how all this additional lexis is to be committed to long-term memory in the limited time available on non-intensive classroom-based language courses. If it is the case that a significant fraction of…

Describes some of the funding problems facing many study abroad programs and examines some approaches that have proven successful in combatting these problems. (EKN)

Emerging social writing platforms offer possibilities for language learners to collaborate around joint assignments. One such environment is the wiki, generally hosting two prominent modes of usage, web pages and discussion forums. This study investigates software engineering students' use of a wiki as an integrated tool within the frames of a…

Describes a teaching assistant (TA) training program instituted at Ohio State University in order to provide TAs with knowledge about teaching and a sense of professionalism. Program is divided into a preservice and an inservice component. (BK)

Describes results of course/career survey of French graduates by Brock University to elicit data useful to Romance Studies department and test viability of liberal education in a society in which vocational studies seem to be most favored. Results showed most respondents obtained work in academic world. Responses were divided regarding…

Foreign language departments tend to develop into sophisticated organizations, giving service to large numbers of students and capable of applying the best technology available. Several models of departmental organization indicate some lines of effective growth. (JB)

The innovative program enables students to enroll, for additional academic credit, in regular disciplinary courses which have supplementary readings and class meetings in a foreign language. Currently 25 professors are experimenting with the special courses and 45 students are enrolled in the foreign language tracks of 4 courses. (DB)

Describes action by the president of Drake University to improve foreign language instruction by sending students abroad and abolishing classroom instruction. (EV)

Examines why women writers are often neglected in second language classes. (EKN)

Discusses the need to broaden students' perspectives in all areas and suggests teaching literary works written in major European languages by third world writers, in second language classes as one method of doing so. (EKN)

Discusses the development of a notional functional syllabus for university second language classes. (EKN)

Describes the content of and reasoning behind the Spanish commerce course at Douglass College. (EKN)