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Download full textLooney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2018
This report describes lower- and upper-level undergraduate and graduate course enrollments in languages other than English in summer and fall 2016 reported by 2,547 AA-, BA-, MA-, and PhD-granting colleges and universities in the United States. Between fall 2013 and fall 2016, enrollments in languages other than English fell 9.2% in colleges and…
Descriptors: College Students, Language Enrollment, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends
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Direct linkDiao, Wenhao; Liu, Hsuan-Ying – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
Focusing on five initially committed learners of Chinese who decide to quit the language during their college freshman year, this study is a critique of the institutional structure that disengages foreign language education in American postsecondary schools. The findings reveal three structural issues that may contribute to the declining…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation
Goldberg, David; Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2015
SINCE 1958, the Modern Language Association (MLA) has gathered and analyzed data on undergraduate and graduate course enrollments in languages other than English in United States colleges and universities. The previous survey examined language enrollments in fall 2009; here the MLA presents its twenty-third survey in the series, describing trends…
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Enrollment Trends
Zhang, George X. – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
British higher education is becoming more and more market-driven following the increase in tuition fees in 2012. As a result, universities need to respond more readily to the market, and student demand and the high employability of graduates are now a priority for most universities. With the growing importance of Asian economies in the new age of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese, Global Approach
Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2019
Total enrollments (undergraduate and graduate) in languages other than English dropped by 9.2% between fall 2013 and fall 2016, as reported in the Modern Language Association's twenty-fifth language enrollment census. Despite the overall drop, there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5%) that mitigate somewhat the downward…
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Smith, Stephen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The qualitative research describes the experience of an instructor, participants, and researcher in a community college-based Chinese language class. Tse's (2000) Foreign Language Autobiographies (FLA), classroom observations, student vignette interviews and observations accompanied by field notes were the sources of data for this study.…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Community Colleges
