U.S. Students Hurting in Foreign Languages

[Francis Hult]

Miller-McCune

 

U.S. Students Hurting in Foreign Languages

 

All you need to know about the study of foreign languages in the United States is that many more middle and high school students are studying the dead language spoken by Caesar and Nero than such critically important tongues as Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Farsi, Japanese, Russian and Urdu combined.

 

"Things cannot get worse. We are at the bottom of the barrel now" in terms of foreign language study in America's schools, says Nancy Rhodes of the Center for Applied Linguistics, which surveys language study in the nation's schools every 10 years.

 

Full story:

http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture-society/u-s-students-hurting-in-foreign-languages-13529/

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