Exploring the US Language Flagship Program: Professional Competence in a Second Language by Graduation (New Perspectives on Language and Education, 50) (Volume 50) - Hardcover

 
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ISBN 10: 1783096098 ISBN 13: 9781783096091
Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2016

Synopsis

A number of reports in the US have highlighted the country’s need for improved second language skills for both national security and economic competitiveness. The Language Flagship program, launched in 2002, aims to raise expectations regarding language proficiency levels at the post-secondary level and to address structural gaps in the curricula of many L2 programs. This federally funded program provides opportunities for US undergraduate students in any specialization to reach...

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About the Authors

Dianna Murphy is Associate Director of the Language Institute and Russian Flagship Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests are in foreign language education at the postsecondary level, with a focus on students’ goals and perspectives on their foreign language learning.



Karen Evans-Romaine is Professor of Russian in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic and Director of the Russian Flagship Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests...

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Exploring the US Language Flagship Program

Professional Competence in a Second Language by Graduation

By Dianna Murphy, Karen Evans-Romaine

Multilingual Matters

Copyright © 2017 Dianna Murphy, Karen Evans-Romaine and the authors of individual chapters
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ISBN: 978-1-78309-609-1

Contents

Acknowledgements, 
Abbreviations, 
Contributors, 
Introduction Karen Evans-Romaine and Dianna Murphy, 
1 The Language Flagship: Creating Expectations and Opportunities for Professional-Level Language Learning in Undergraduate Education Michael Nugent and Robert Slater, 
2 Laying...
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