June 8, 2007

MLA Report Calls for Transformation of Foreign-Language Education

By BURTON BOLLAG

Foreign-language teaching at American colleges and universities — typically characterized by two or three years of grammar and vocabulary taught pretty much in a vacuum, followed by more advanced courses in literature — has outlived its usefulness and needs to change, according to a new report by the Modern Language Association.

That well-established model, it says, should be replaced by interdisciplinary language programs that contain from the beginning more

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