Arabic Offerings Rare in Schools

Autor/in	Zehr, Mary Ann
Titel	Arabic Offerings Rare in Schools
Quelle	In: Education Week, 23 (2004) 38, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Semitic Languages; Public Schools; Federal Government; Second Language Learning; Uncommonly Taught Languages; Cultural Awareness; Religious Factors; Teacher Shortage; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arabisch; Hebräisch; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Bundesregierung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Minderheitensprache; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Lehrermangel; USA
Abstract	Since terrorists from Arab countries attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government has been desperately seeking to hire Arabic speakers. Even now, more than 2 1/2 years later, the nation has only a small pool of students who are seriously studying the language. Furthermore, the author states that only a smattering of public elementary and secondary schools across the country--perhaps no more than two dozen--teach the language as part of the regular curriculum. And while enrollment in Arabic classes at the college level nearly doubled from 1998 to 2002, from 5,505 to 10,584 students, Arabic is still one of the nation's least commonly studied languages of those spoken worldwide, according to the Modern Language Association. Here, some Arabic teachers question the depth of the federal government's interest in the preparation of people to speak the language and whether even the present level of interest will be sustained. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10