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Priorities in Language Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

John S. Diekhoff
John S. Diekhoff*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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When the Foreign Language Program of the Modern Language Association was five years old, in 1957, its Advisory and Liaison Committee drew up a plan for its second five years and prepared a request for a foundation grant to implement the plan. The proposal outlined five areas of major effort. There were activities designed to increase the quantity of language study, but these activities were to be more than an extension of prior promotional activities of the MLA Foreign Language Program. The intention was still to persuade educators, parents, and the general public of the value of language education and of the necessity for sequences of language study that could result in proficiency in the spoken and written language. But in addition to an “information and advisory campaign,” the MLA also proposed “effective demonstration programs.”

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 80 , Issue 2 , May 1965 , pp. 24 - 28
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1965

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Footnotes

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An address given at the General Meeting on the Foreign Language Program in New York, 29 December 1964.

References

1 “A Five-Year Program for Improving Modern Foreign Language Instruction in the National Interest,” mimeographed (New York: MLA, 1957).

2 Lawrence G. Derthick, “The Purpose and Legislative History of the Foreign Languages Titles in the National Defense Education Act, 1958,” PMLA, lxxiv (May 1959), 48.

3 “The Foreign Language Program in Title III of the National Defense Education Act,” PMLA, lxxv (May 1960), 11.

4 The National Interest and Foreign Languages, third ed. (Washington, D. C, 1961), pp. 16–17.