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| Title | Report: Foreign Language Study Needs Overhaul |
| Body | From http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071227/NEWS0102/712270377/1058/NEWS01 Report: Foreign language study needs overhaul Students lack oral skills BY ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS December 27, 2007 Two major reports this fall on foreign language teaching in Ohio have reached the same conclusion: The state must start providing long, uninterrupted stretches of instruction as early as kindergarten and stop repeating material year after year. Students "begin again and again with, 'Hello, how are you?' as they move from one school to the next rather than advancing to more challenging material," according to a report released this month by the state's Foreign Language Advisory Council. Language classes lasting for just nine, 12 or 16 weeks are common throughout the state, the report said. The 39-page report also says the state must increase instruction in less-traditional languages like Chinese and Arabic while continuing to teach western languages like French and Spanish. Read the entire article at http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071227/NEWS0102/712270377/1058/NEWS01 . |
| Source | The Enquirer (Cincinnati) |
| Inputdate | 2007-12-30 01:57:15 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2007-12-30 01:57:15 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-12-31 00:00:00 |
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