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>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
>From: TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6825 websites on post-studies employment
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I am sure there are excellent Canadian websites.

I have designed a promotional site for French

On the Importance of Knowing French
http://www.utm.edu/~globeg/profren.shtml


and one for Tennessee language learners

Why study a foreign language in Tennessee?
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/why.html

with a follow-up article in paper "Impressing Shania, or Why Study a 
Foreign Language in Tennessee?." Echo: Biannual Journal of the 
Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association 34, No. 1 (Winter 
2001): 26-29. The Tennessee web site also links in a number of 
general arguments.

I point these out because on the bottom of the web pages, I link in 
some job web sites (Monster.com, etc.), where you can type in the 
name of a language and see what is currently available using that 
language.   It is pretty convincing.

Finally, there is a Business Week article just out:

The Importance of Being Multilingual
http://www.businessweek.com:/print/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2002/nf2002094_2752.htm?mainwindow

Of course these are all moot points if your department's goal is to 
process students through the litcrit weary theory labyrinth to a 
jobless future.






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Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Univ. of Tennessee-Martin
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