March 5, 2008

MLA's Recommendations on Transforming Foreign-Language Education Continue to Provoke Debate

By Paula Wasley

Nearly one year after its release, a report on foreign language and higher education issued by an ad hoc committee of the Modern Language Association is still provoking discussion—some of it contentious—about possible reforms in the teaching of foreign languages and the role of the association in any curricular revamp.

That debate continued at a panel held on Monday at George Washington University, which brought together several prominent leaders, including Rosemary G.

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