A number of promotional ideas used for increasing North Carolina's foreign language enrollment are listed. They are divided into: state level, regional level (including numerous suggestions for foreign language festivals and evening and/or Saturday mini-courses for teachers), local level, and teachers in each school (including many suggestions for…

Links the decline in foreign language enrollments to the general decline in education in the liberal arts. (AM)

A foreign language teacher describes her simple and inexpensive strategy for recruitment and publicity to build a strong foreign language program in the Crook County, Oregon, schools. Inexpensive methods of acquiring and developing instructional materials are also described. (SW)

An annual Foreign Language Day has been found to be an excellent means to stimulate interest in foreign languages, self-expression, and creativity. Suggestions for the design of such a day are based on experience at St. Bonaventure University since 1974. (Author/SW)

The enrollment in Latin and Greek classes in the Philadelphia public schools has increased greatly in the last ten years. Courses are offered in elementary as well as secondary schools. An audiolingual approach is used. Available from Universitaet des Saarlandes, Fachbereich 6.2, D-6600 Saarbrueken, West Germany. (Text is in Latin.) (CFM)

This article notes the numbers of students in Australia enrolled in high school and college courses in Serbo-Croatian. Many of these have Serbo-Croatian ethnic or linguistic backgrounds. (CHK)

Address given to students at Althouse College of Education, London, Ontario; discusses Canadian reaction to the "imported" audiolingual method and future directions of language instruction in Canada. (RL)

Address delivered at the first ADFL Summer Seminar for Chairmen on June 21, 1971 at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. Discusses the situation of foreign language teaching in the United States, and the need for imaginative and inspiring teachers. (DS)

Examines the current situation regarding the study and use of French in various European countries as well as the United States. It is suggested that French language and culture can best be promoted through the promotion of the study of many languages. (AM)

Examines the status of foreign language teaching and internal and external factors that affect its status. Proposes solutions to problems in foreign language education, such as its isolation from other disciplines in the curriculum. Such solutions include communicating goals, developing cultural competence, and enhancing interdisciplinary…

Presents data obtained from a survey of 2,796 colleges and universities regarding foreign language enrollment, focusing on trends in foreign languages at 2-year colleges, language registrations between 1960 and 1990, and less and most commonly taught languages. (CB)

Explores the relative dominance of English as the preferred second language among foreign countries and the rise in the importance accorded to other languages, growing foreign language enrollment, language attitude changes, and concerns that English language competence is not enough and that other important languages are being neglected. (CB)

Examines the languages (German, Italian, French) year-10 British students choose to study and shows how each language has fared to provide a basis for comparisons across languages. Also examines the results of interviews with students to determine the motive behind decisions to pursue or drop a language. (five references) (CK)

Discusses ways to increase enrollments in college foreign language courses and build full-service language departments, suggesting nine strategies to promote interest in foreign languages. The strategies encourage faculty to reach out to students and faculty in other departments, to the community, and to the region via public programs such as film…

Shows how participation in a program that emphasizes international economics and culture and thus study abroad and double majors has strengthened the language department at one university. Author/VWL)