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490 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 8 (1987)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0490 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE

The articles in this volume comprise the working papers for a week-long meeting
held at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies in June 1986. That meeting,
supported by the Exxon Education Foundation and the Ford Foundation, was in
preparation for the establishment of the National Foreign Language Center.
Those in attendance at that meeting were Lyle Bachman, University of Illinois;
Richard Brod, Modern Language Association; Russell N. Campbell, University of
California at Los Angeles; John L. D. Clark, Defense Language Institute; Ray T.
Clifford, Defense Language Institute; Helen Cunningham, Pew Memorial Trust;
John Fought, University of Pennsylvania; Phyllis Franklin, Modern Language
Association; Claire L. Gaudiani, University of Pennsylvania; Ralph Ginsberg,
University of Pennsylvania; Frank Heny, State University of New York at Albany;
Ralph Hester, Stanford University; Randall Jones, Brigham Young University;
Eleanor Jorden, Cornell University; Cornelius Kubler, American Institute in
Taiwan; Richard D. Lambert, University of Pennsylvania; Dale Lange, University
of Minnesota; Diane Larsen-Freeman, Experiment in International Living; Steven
Lavine, Rockefeller Foundation; Michael Long, University of Hawaii at Manoa;
Nancy McCarthy, Ford Foundation; Sarah Jane Moore, American Academy of
Political and Social Science; Alice Omaggio, University of Illinois; C. Edward
Scebold, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages; Arne Shore,
Exxon Education Foundation; Peter Stanley, Ford Foundation; G. Richard
Tucker, Center for Applied Linguistics; and A. Ronald Walton, University of
Maryland.
The articles in this volume are an attempt to capture the essence of a great deal of
planning and advocacy currently taking place around the country in the field of
foreign language pedagogy. The authors of the articles were asked to summarize the
current state of knowledge and to make recommendations for future action on
particular aspects of foreign language instruction. Together, these articles constitute
a fresh statement of what the nation must do to improve the foreign language
competencies of our citizens.
By the time this volume is published, the National Foreign Language Center will
have been established. It will be the primary purpose of that center to provide
national leadership in the fulfillment of this agenda. It is hoped that other
organizations and individuals will find this compilation of analyses and recommen-
dations useful for their own efforts as well.
RICHARD D. LAMBERT

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