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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED176534 AUTHOR: Lambert, Wallace E.
TITLE: An Alternative to the Foreign Language Teaching
Profession. Lektos: Interdisciplinary Working Papers in
Language Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 2.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1975
NOTE: 16 p.; Lecture delivered in the University of
Louisville Lecture Series in Language Learning and Language
Teaching (Louisville, Kentucky, 1974); Paper originally
included in "Essays on the Teaching of Culture: A
Festschrift to Honor Howard Lee Nostrand" (Advancement
Press of America, 1974)
AVAILABILITY: University of Louisville, Interdisciplinary
Program in Linguistics, Room 214 Humanities, Louisville,
Kentucky 40208
ABSTRACT: The traditional discipline of foreign language
teaching is ineffective and in trouble and should be
replaced with a new, broader field. The new discipline
should lay emphasis on the following: (1) awareness of
cultural and linguistic diversity in the United States and
Canada as well as abroad, (2) meeting the needs of students
from all areas of society, (3) teaching children from the
earliest grades on, (4) goal-oriented communicative
competence, (5) language instruction embedded in cultural
education, and (6) training of teachers in the behavioral
sciences. (JB)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Behavioral-Sciences; Child-Language;
Communicative-Competence-Languages; Cultural-Awareness;
Cultural-Pluralism; Educational-Objectives
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Cultural-Education; *Educational-Methods;
*Language-Instruction; *Second-Language-Learning; *Teacher
Education; *Teacher-Effectiveness
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