Overview
- Offers a compelling analysis of the failure of United States policy makers, educators and American citizens to recognize the importance of learning foreign languages
- Issues a challenge for all Americans to become less “tongue-tied” but instead to embrace a foreign language and culture
- Outlines a focused set of steps which can be undertaken from the local level to the national level to remedy this deficit in foreign language fluency
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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The Extent and Impact of the U.S. Foreign Language Deficit
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Foreign Language Learning
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The Campaign for Foreign Languages
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Book Title: The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit
Book Subtitle: Strategies for Maintaining a Competitive Edge in a Globalized World
Authors: Kathleen Stein-Smith
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34159-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34158-3Published: 05 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81691-3Published: 14 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-34159-0Published: 24 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 123
Topics: Language Policy and Planning, Language Education, Education Economics, Education Policy, Multilingualism