21Century+Evaluate

=Evaluate: Grand Purposes for FL Education - Policies and Politics Lurking in the Background=

//There are numerous purposes for and approaches to "foreign" language education. What purpose(s) do you see for FL teaching and learning in the 21st Century? How can we make sense of it all?//

//**Your task**: Identify the underlying purpose for FL learning and/or the sanctioned pedagogical approach in these resources. What evidence is given? What and whose interests are being served? Draft a "position statement" in which your group articulates what you see as the most compelling reason(s) for FL teaching in the 21st century.// //(You are not required to carefully read all of these, but please skim each one and prioritize which resources seem most important to you. Also, you are free to find other resources.)//

__Resources:__
 * [|American Educational Research Association (AERA) - Research Brief on FL Teaching]
 * [|Modern Language Association (MLA) - Report on FL Teaching & Learning]
 * [|http://www.thejournal.com/articles/17296 >>] Second Language Learning and Technology
 * [|Foreign Language Teaching in Europe]
 * [|Report on Language Policy under President Bush]
 * http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/como-se-dice-ob.html Barack Obama's position on FL learning
 * http://www.foreignlanguageblog.com/?cat=6 - Scroll down to see this post: "Is the US doing a bad job?"
 * [|Italki] - [|A new worldwide language learning Wiki coming out of China]
 * [|What We Can Learn from Other Countries about FL Teaching]
 * [|Taking "Foreign" out of Foreign Language Teaching]

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