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1996 PATTERNS & POLICIES: THE CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION

 

Contents, acknowledgements, contributors

Introduction

Judith F. Liskin-Gasparro

Articles

Basic assumptions revisited: Today's French and Spanish students at a large metropolitan university

Gail Guntermann; Carmen De Urioste

16
Le français est mort, vive le français: Rethinking the function of French

H. Jay Siskin; Mark A. Knowles; Robert L. Davis

47
Do German students hold gender biases about their TAs?

Monika Chavez

83
Teaching Chinese to the Chinese: The development of an assessment and instructional model

Scott McGinnis

117
Srudents classified as learning disabled and the college foreign language requirement: A case study of one university

Richard L. Sparks; Lois Philips; Leonore Ganschow

132
Changing demographics in foreign language study and the impact upon two-year colleges: A case study from Georgia

Carol A. Wilkerson

169
Communication policy for a unique bilingual community: The national technical institute for the deaf

Christine Monikowski; Donna E. Gustina

180
The foreign language class: A forum for intercultural communication

Gloria Sawicki

200
A cognitive model for the teaching of the literary elements in the second-year language class

Joan F. Turner; Glynis Cowell

217