The
July 2002 issue offers:
FEATURE: Steven
Donahue discovers how the National Guard is responding to a new
priority: language education.
FOCUS:
Maria Carreira says that the unique position of Spanish
in the U.S. means that we should develop new assessment tools
for measuring proficiency in the language.
IMMERSION: Maggie Broner discovers that students
are often reluctant to use a second language in the language immersion
classroom.
TESTING:
Barbara S. Andrews believes that proficiency testing
“mania” is a serious threat to the future of language
teaching in America’s schools.
DIALECTS:
Beverly Olson Flanigan explains how Ohio came to
be a microcosm of American English dialect differences.
ELECTRONIC
EDUCATION: Arnie Cooper reports on the demands of teaching
a new kind of literacy.
LANGUAGE
TRAVEL: Kevin Revolinski reports on language
immersion programs in Guatemala.
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