American education and global interdependence: on the need for a transcendent language.

Autor/in	Bauer, Norman J.
Titel	American education and global interdependence: on the need for a transcendent language.
Quelle	(1987), 18 S.Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	Mikroform; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Lingua franca; Fremdsprachenunterricht
Abstract	While it is clear that this is an era of global interdependence, the ideology of single language learning persists in the United States. We need to re-examine the view that learning a particular foreign language satisfies global communication needs. It is not sensible to have students spend hundreds of hours studying one foreign language and culture. Esperanto or another easily learned, transcendent language should be internationally adopted and stressed in schools around the world, for all students to learn. Important professional associations in education should begin to study this need, individually and collectively. Leaders and policymakers should support general instruction in a viable, transcendent language through the allocation of federal resources. Theorists must consider the implicit discrimination in the use of only a few selected national languages, and foreign language teachers at all levels should re-examine their attitudes about a planned, artifical, neutral, transcendent language. Finally, schools need to expose prospective teachers and administrators to artificial language, make clear the value of such languages, and encourage them to acquire competency in a transcendent language.
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	1996_(CD)