--- Forwarded Message from TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> --- >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:33:25 -0700 >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 >Cc: [log in to unmask] ------------------ 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. -- ========================================================== Look it up in the Andy Holt Virtual Library http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/vlhome.shtml ========================================================== Robert D. Peckham, PhD Director, the Globe-Gate Project Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center Department of Modern Foreign Languages Univ. of Tennessee-Martin http://globegate.org/french/globe.html