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<p><span id="ms-rterangepaste-start"></span><span>Inside Higher Ed</span><span id="ms-rterangepaste-end"></span></p>
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<p>In 2007 the Modern Language Association issued a report calling for major reforms in the teaching of foreign languages.
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<p>What's happened since?</p>
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<p>Call to Action on Languages, 10 Years Later</p>
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<p>Ten years after the Modern Language Association issued a report calling for a “transformation” in the curriculum and structure of foreign language programs, to what degree have programs heeded the call?</p>
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<p>Lara Lomicka Anderson, a professor of French and applied linguistics at the University of South Carolina, and Gillian Lord, a professor and chair of the Spanish and Portuguese department at the University of Florida, set out to answer that question in a
national survey of faculty members and students, disseminated via email and social media.</p>
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<p>Full story:<br>
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/06/survey-looks-foreign-language-programs-response-decade-old-call-transform-teaching</p>
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