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Annotated Bibliography of Modern Language Methodology for 1952
Author(s) -
Eenenaam Evelyn
Publication year - 1954
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1954.tb03149.x
Subject(s) - dozen , foreign language , period (music) , political science , linguistics , history , sociology , pedagogy , mathematics education , psychology , philosophy , arithmetic , mathematics , aesthetics
“It is ironical, to say the least, that at a time when the United States needs more and more citizens trained in a dozen foreign languages to enable it to deal politically, economically, culturally with the nations of the earth, so many educators are continuing to prate away about the uselessness of foreign language instruction in the schools and colleges. If in the past such instruction has seemed useless for Americans in view of few subsequent opportunities or inducements to read and speak foreign languages, it must be admitted that many more opportunities and inducements now exist in the postwar world…. It is high time that schools and colleges begin looking again at what is going on in the second half of the twentieth century. ‘Education for living’ in this period obviously should include more and more foreign language instruction.”