[lg policy] New CAL paper--Building the Foreign Language Capacity We Need: Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for a National Language Framework

[Harold Schiffman]

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UC Santa Barbara    *Building the Foreign Language Capacity We Need: Toward
a Comprehensive Strategy for a National Language Framework*
By *Frederick H. Jackson and **Margaret E. Malone*


There is a critical national requirement for skilled speakers of languages
other than English. The need is
not new. It has been recognized and documented for more than fifty years in
reports of high‐level
commissions, published analytical studies, and testimony by government and
private figures before both
houses of Congress, reports in national and local news media, and in a major
presidential initiative. As a
result of 21st century economic globalization and international terrorism,
it has never been more urgent
to develop American citizens who fully understand and can communicate
effectively with people of
other cultures. Although several steps are being taken to begin to address
this need, they are isolated
and lack central coordination and accountability; to meet the need requires
a comprehensive long‐term
national strategy. The purpose of this paper is to recommend the necessary
components of such a
strategy.

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