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| Title | Follow-up Opinions: Will Americans Really Learn Chinese? |
| Body | From http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/will-americans-really-learn-chinese/?th&emc=th The Times recently reported on the rise of Chinese-language instruction in American schools, a push supported by aid from the Chinese government. While language fads come and go — there was Russian during the cold war, then Japanese in the 1980’s, then Arabic after 9/11 — thousands of public schools have stopped teaching foreign languages in the last decade. Is the boom in Chinese language education going to last? Read opinions from several language experts: * Susan Jacoby, author of “The Age of American Unreason” * Ingrid Pufahl, Center for Applied Linguistics * Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco, N.Y.U.’s immigration studies program * Norman Matloff, University of California, Davis * Hongyin Tao, professor of Chinese language and linguistics * Bruce Fuller, U.C. Berkeley professor of education and public policy Available at http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/will-americans-really-learn-chinese/?th&emc=th |
| Source | New York Times |
| Inputdate | 2010-02-14 11:15:37 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2010-02-14 11:15:37 |
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| Publishdate | 2010-02-15 00:00:00 |
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