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1993 THE DYNAMICS OF LANGUAGE PROGRAM DIRECTION

 

Contents, acknowledgements, contributors

Introduction

David P. Benseler

Articles

The undergraduate program: Autonomy and empowerment

Wilga M. Rivers

15
TA supervision: Are we preparing a future professoriate?

Cathy R. Pons

30
Applied scholarship in foreign languages: A program of study in professional development

Katherine Arens

43
The dynamics and visability of the postsecondary foreign language enterprise: A five-year survey of the chronicle of higher education

Francis Lide

74
TA programs: The fit between foreign language teacher preparation and institutional needs

Lynn Carbón Gorell; Jorge Cubillos

99
The "culture and commerce" of the foreign language textbook: A preliminary investigation

L. Kathy Heilenman; Erwin Tschirner

118
The dynamics of placement testing: Implications for articulation and program revision

Diane W. Birkcbichler; Kathryn A. Corl; Craig Deville

162
Identifying and instructing at-risk foreign language learners in college

Richard L. Sparks; Leonore Ganschow

179
After the classroom visit: A model for the preparation of peer supervisors

Robert L. Davis; Joan F. Turner

206
Issues and perspectives on when TAs supervise TAs

James F. Lee; Donna Deans Binkowski; Alex Binkowski

228
Attitudes of teaching assistants and studenets towards the exclusive use of the target language in beeginning Freench classes

Flore Zéphir; Marie-Magdeleine Chirol

245