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Articles

Why U.S. undergraduate students are (not) studying languages other than English

Dianna Murphy; Merve Sarac; Sonya Sedivy

Why do U.S. undergraduate students take courses in languages other than English (LOTEs)? Perhaps more importantly, why don’t they? This …

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Ideological views of reading in contemporary French textbooks: A content analysis

Kristen Michelson; Ashley Anderson

Reading instructional practices in foreign languag­e (FL) classrooms often involve asking students to read a text aloud, answer comprehension questions …

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Examining instructional contexts and student beliefs in Arabic teacher recruitment

Michele Back; Brahim Oulbeid

Although enrollments in Arabic postsecondary programs increased substantially in the early 21st century, the lack of robust teacher training, combined …

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Examining teacher dispositions and high-leverage practices in university Spanish courses.

Rebecca Borden

The quality of instruction in introduct­­ory language classes can be widely variable. The purpose of this qualitative case study was …

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Exploring a compassionate approach to student placement in language classes

Gillian Lord

The issue of how to place students into appropriate class levels in languages other than English is one that most …

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Reports

Special Section on Decentering Language Curricula

Who is at the center of our language teaching?

Stacey Margarita Johnson

The terminology of student- and teacher-centeredness is familiar to most language teachers as a metric of effective teaching. In this …

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Microaggressions and intercultural competence in the Spanish classroom

Marcela van Olphen; Silvia M. Peart

Microaggressions are subtle offensive mechanisms that can be intentional or unintentional (Pierce, 1970). For the past 50 years, researchers have …

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Toward systematic diversification of collegiate U.S. Arabic language curricula

Katrien Vanpee

Growing recognition of the importance of instruction in colloquial Arabic has led to increased incorporation of colloquials into collegiate Arabic …

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(Co)constructing critical pedagogies: Expanding on our department’s approach to language teaching

Anna Piotti; Hannah A. Matangos; Alexis C. Wilt; Julia Goetze; Valérie Keppenne; Katherine Kerschen

In this report, we—the members of a curriculum working group (CWG) in Penn State’s German department—describe our efforts to decenter …

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