Lanugage programs in academic limbo (Lessons in Polyglottery) Language Learning Forum

Lanugage programs in academic limbo
Tags: College/University \| Language Program
Share with: Delicious Digg reddit Facebook StumbleUpon
Language Learning Forum : Lessons in Polyglottery

Kugel Senior Member United States Joined 6543 days ago 497 posts - 555 votes Speaks: English*	Message 1 of 4 03 June 2008 at 3:01pm \| IP Logged
	Successful language programs in regards to their effectiveness tend to go straight to academic limbo rather than the top 200 universities here in the U.S. How do you feel about the $100-150 textbooks designed for the first and second year , which are inferior to the obscure language programs/textbooks that are mostly effective, taking the authority on language pedagogy? Can this problem ever be solved? Barts Edited by Kugel on 03 June 2008 at 3:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful
Budz Octoglot Senior Member Australia languagepump.com Joined 6378 days ago 118 posts - 171 votes Speaks: German*, English, Russian, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Mandarin, Cantonese, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Persian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Swahili, Vietnamese, Polish	Message 2 of 4 03 June 2008 at 7:43pm \| IP Logged
	nope 1 person has voted this message useful
Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6773 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek	Message 4 of 4 03 June 2008 at 10:55pm \| IP Logged
	I don't know that's always the case. Universities like Simon Fraser U. in Canada are taking languages very seriously, and in the case of Mandarin they're creating their own materials from scratch for both their own students and other Canadian universities to use. What's more, they basically sell their textbooks for the cost of the paper and binding. Edited by Captain Haddock on 03 June 2008 at 10:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful

If you wish to post a reply to this topic you must first login. If you are not already registered you must first register

Printable version

You cannot post new topics in this forum - You cannot reply to topics in this forum - You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum - You cannot create polls in this forum - You cannot vote in polls in this forum

This page was generated in 0.2344 seconds.