Updating the Foreign Language Agenda Export

@article{citeulike:2459623, abstract = {At the founding of the National Foreign Language Center in 1987, several major structural problems facing the field of foreign language (FL) instruction were identified in an editorial in The Modern Language Journal. These broad architectural issues are part of a national agenda for change, both here and abroad, and have been the focus of the NFLC's activities since its establishment. The agenda issues identified in the article are: evaluating language competency; articulating instruction across educational levels and the different contexts in which FLs are taught; increasing the range of languages taught and studied; achieving higher levels of language skills; promoting language competency and use among adults; expanding research and maximizing its impact on FL teaching and learning; and assessing and diffusing new technologies in instructional practice, with particular attention to Internet communication, machine translation, and distance education. The article briefly indicates the nature of these challenges and notes the progress that has been made.}, author = {Lambert, Richard D.}, citeulike-article-id = {2459623}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/0026-7902.00113}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0026-7902.00113}, doi = {10.1111/0026-7902.00113}, journal = {The Modern Language Journal}, keywords = {bw}, number = {3}, pages = {347--362}, posted-at = {2009-01-19 06:39:52}, priority = {2}, title = {Updating the Foreign Language Agenda}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0026-7902.00113}, volume = {85}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2459623 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2459623 N2 - At the founding of the National Foreign Language Center in 1987, several major structural problems facing the field of foreign language (FL) instruction were identified in an editorial in The Modern Language Journal. These broad architectural issues are part of a national agenda for change, both here and abroad, and have been the focus of the NFLC’s activities since its establishment. The agenda issues identified in the article are: evaluating language competency; articulating instruction across educational levels and the different contexts in which FLs are taught; increasing the range of languages taught and studied; achieving higher levels of language skills; promoting language competency and use among adults; expanding research and maximizing its impact on FL teaching and learning; and assessing and diffusing new technologies in instructional practice, with particular attention to Internet communication, machine translation, and distance education. The article briefly indicates the nature of these challenges and notes the progress that has been made. IS - 3 JF - The Modern Language Journal EP - 362 TI - Updating the Foreign Language Agenda VL - 85 SP - 347 KW - bw AU - Lambert, Richard PY - 2001/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/0026-7902.00113 ER -