The future of foreign language education in the United States / / edited by Terry A. Osborn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819834003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, Conn., : Bergin & Garvey, 2002
• ISBN: 0-313-00405-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary language education
• Altri autori (Persone): OsbornTerry A. <1966->
• Disciplina: 418/.0071/073
• Soggetti: Languages, Modern - Study and teaching - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- The Future of Foreign Language Education in the United States -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Tables -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Our Patriotic Duty": Insights from Professional History, 1890-1920 -- FOREIGNNESS AND THE STUDENTS WE SERVE -- PURGING POLITICS FROM AMERICAN CURRICULUM DESIGN -- MODERN LANGUAGES AND THE BATTLE FOR PRESTIGE -- NATION-BUILDING AND THE COLLAPSE OF GERMAN LANGUAGE STUDY -- "OUR PATRIOTIC DUTY": AMERICANIZING FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- CHANGING COURSE: A NEW PURPOSE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY? -- Extending Sequences -- Taking a Stand on Language and Patriotism -- Abandoning Strategies that Don't Work -- MAKING IT WORK: NEW VISIONS AND MULTILEVEL COORDINATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 2 The Entangled Future of Foreign Language Learning -- MATHEMATICS AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE -- SEMANTIC REFERENCE -- THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING -- THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE -- LANGUAGE LEARNING IN THE NEAR-PRESENT -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 3 "Knowing" and "Learning" a Foreign Language: Epistemological Reflections on Classroom Practice -- CONSTRUCTIVIST EPISTEMOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW -- CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACHES TO TEACHING -- IMPLICATIONS OF CONSTRUCTIVIST EPISTEMOLOGY FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4 Responding to Literature in the Foreign Language Classroom: Aesthetic Dimensions of ; Fluency -- LITERARY STUDY AND THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM -- LANGUAGE LEARNING AND THE AESTHETIC -- AESTHETIC RESPONSE TO LITERATURE -- POETS AND TRANSLATION -- AESTHETIC READING AND RESPONSE IN THE CLASSROOM -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 5 Challenging the Monovocal Narrative: Interdisciplinary Units in the Foreign Language Classroom -- INTRODUCTION -- CONSIDERATIONS FROM THE HISTORICAL DOMAIN.; SOCIAL STUDIES, CULTURE, AND GLOBAL CONNECTIONS -- FOREIGN LANGUAGE DOMAIN CONSIDERATIONS -- CONNECTIVE VALIDITY AND THE INTERDISCIPLINARY UNIT -- COMPARATIVE INTEGRITY AND THE INTERDISCIPLINARY UNIT -- VIETNAM AND HISTORY CLASS COMPONENTS -- LANGUAGE CLASSROOM COMPONENTS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 6 Enabling Teachers Through Type Theory: Nurturing the Pluralistic Persona -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING THE PROBLEM -- A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM -- DEFINITION OF TERMS -- AN OVERVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE -- Introverted Energizers and Extraverted Energizers -- Sensing Perceivers and INtuitive Perceivers -- Thinking Deciders and Feeling Deciders -- Judging Doer and Perceiving Doer -- PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE IN TEACHER PREPARATION -- TYPE THEORY AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING -- CONCLUSION -- ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED READINGS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 7 Professional Renewal: The Role of Teacher Education in Multicultural America -- TOWARD A CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE PRACTICE -- ACTION RESEARCH -- THE CRITICAL ACTION RESEARCHER -- PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT -- BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER: ORGANIZED PROFESSIONALS -- THE FUTURE OF US ALL -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 8 Toward a Political Economy of the Less Commonly Taught Languages in American Public Schools -- CONCEPTUALIZING THE LCTLS -- TOWARD AN OUTLINE OF A SOCIAL GRAMMAR OF THE LCTLS -- EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 9 Reversing Language Loss in a Multilingual Setting: A Native Language Enhancement Program and Its Impact -- INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT -- NATIVE LANGUAGE ENHANCEMENT CLASS -- Composition of Class -- Description of Program -- Materials Acquisition -- Assessment -- Summary -- IMPACT OF PROGRAM -- DIMENSIONS OF TEACHER CHANGE -- Changes in Attitudes -- Changes in Action -- Metacognitive Awareness -- DIMENSIONS OF STUDENT CHANGE -- Students' Attitude Changes -- Students' Behavioral Changes.; Students' Metacognitive/Metalinguistic Awareness -- SUMMARY -- CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- APPENDIX A: SAMPLE NATIVE LANGUAGE ACTIVITY GUIDE -- American Reality: TRANSITIONS -- Teenage Pregnancy: Native Language Activity -- APPENDIX B: SAMPLE NATIVE LANGUAGE ACTIVITY GUIDE -- American Reality: CHANGES -- Poetry Project -- APPENDIX C: STUDENT QUESTIONNAIRE -- NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 10 Authentic "Migratory" Experiences for Language Learners: Macrocontextualization as Critical Pedagogy -- WHO GETS TO TEACH LANGUAGES? -- "YEAR ABROAD" PROGRAMS -- POPULAR CULTURE COUNTS -- "REAL" PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT -- PRACTICES THAT TRANSFORM -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index -- About the Contributors.