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--- Forwarded Message from Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 07:27:30 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5229 Language Graduation Requirements
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
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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
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
CV: http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/tbobcv.html
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