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Dennis said

>(BTW, we have interepreted "proficiencying out" of the
>requirement to mean that a student can READ, WRITE, and handle ORAL
>communication on an intermediate-mid level.  We doubt that he is able to
>do the graphic skills, but, of course, we have no way to evaluate that
>here.)

I am not quite sure these claims students are bringing are really fair to
academic institutions, whose requirements are supposed to aid the
marketability of their students.  If such a student learns yet another
language, then she/he becomes even more marketable.  In Tennessee, we bank
heavily on the marketability argument:

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

I wonder if, since a number of colleges are accepting these arguments from
students, they should not enlist the services of a major foreign language
institute.  For example, the 

Tennessee Foreign Language Institute
http://www.foreignlanguages.org/

handles 141 world languages, Bengali among them.

TBob

Bob Peckham
Director, The Globe-Gate Project
Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages
Univ. of Tennessee-Martin
Martin, TN  38238  USA
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http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
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