Overview
- Provides actionable takeaways for improving language program enrollment
- Includes representation and perspectives from a variety of authors as well as types of institutions and programs
- Strong focus on student perspectives and diverse voices on language learning challenges
Part of the book series: Educational Linguistics (EDUL, volume 63)
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About this book
The perception of a permanent enrollment crisis in US postsecondary foreign language education has shaped our profession’s image for an entire generation of educators. Over the past 30 years, this crisis rarely invited self-examination or inspired creativity. Instead, it was routinely attributed to external factors: shrinking budgets, unsympathetic administrators, disengaged students. This volume is refreshingly optimistic: After providing a nuanced picture of the complex enrollment situation and focusing on perceptions of language education among undergraduate students, the volume features an inspiring panorama of successful models that revitalized language programs at a wide range of institutions. The diversity of approaches to post-secondary language education in the United States featured in this volume highlights that there are no simple “one size fits all” solutions. To be transformational, initiatives need to be intimately calibrated to the evolving needs and desires of our institutions’ most important stakeholder: the student. Per Urlaub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
Keywords
- Foreign language enrollment landscape
- Language program enrollment decline
- Language program enrollment increase
- How to increase foreign language enrollments
- Language department chair need to know
- Recruitment and retention of language students
- Credentials for foreign language learning
- Innovative ideas for language programs
Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Setting the Scene
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Student Voices
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Solutions to Thrive: Planned and Imagined Initiatives
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Emily Heidrich Uebel (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin‐Madison) is an Academic Specialist at the Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA) and the Associate Executive Director of the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center (NLRC) at Michigan State University. Her research interests include foreign language proficiency, educational technology and online instruction, curriculum design, LCTL education, and education abroad topics. More information can be found on her website.
Felix A. Kronenberg is the Director of the Center for Language Teaching Advancement (CeLTA), Director of the National Less Commonly Taught Languages Resource Center (NLRC), and an Associate Professor of German in the Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University. His research interests include physical, virtual, and hybrid language learning spaces, educational technology, curriculum design, and program administration. More information can be found on his website.
Scott Sterling (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an Associate Professor of linguistics and TESL at Indiana State University. His research includes meta-research, research ethics, and second language acquisition. More information can be found on his website.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language Program Vitality in the United States
Book Subtitle: From Surviving to Thriving in Higher Education
Editors: Emily Heidrich Uebel, Felix A. Kronenberg, Scott Sterling
Series Title: Educational Linguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43654-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-43653-6Published: 10 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-43656-7Due: 23 November 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-43654-3Published: 09 November 2023
Series ISSN: 1572-0292
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1656
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 382
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Education, general, Language Education, Education Policy