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Lanugage programs in academic limbo

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Kugel
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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

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03 June 2008 at 7:43pm | IP Logged 
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Captain Haddock
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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.

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