Supporting Websites & Articles on Advocacy:

These sites and articles are helpful for starting research, formulating position papers or statements to legislators, and for sharing with colleagues, administrators, parents & students. 

Despite the major reductions in Title VI and Fulbright-Hays and the House Education Committee’s attack on FLAP, at the national level languages continue to have friends in high places.   Through the on-going budget and financial battles, the importance of languages to national security and economic competitiveness will likely remain a primary source of support.  Consider where this memo is from and where it went.  Whether this carries over into education in the remainder of the 112^th Congress will remain to be seen.

ACTFL World Languages 21st Century Skills: A Visual Introduction

What kind of world language requirements do Pennsylvania colleges and universities have for entrance and exit?

• Why Study French?

Advocacy Websites:

• Foreign Language Association of Georgia Advocacy Page
• Consortium for Assessing Performance Standards
• Ñandutí Advocacy Page
• New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers' Advocacy Links
• Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT) Advocacy Page

Advocacy Articles:
While English was the native language of 9% of the world’s people in 1995, it will decline to 5% in 2050. A study by David Graddol states that “English is unlikely to become the world’s dominant language but will remain one of the world’s important languages…” He continues by saying “that English-only speakers may find it difficult to participate in a multilingual society.” In the world that students will experience “people will probably switch between two or more languages for routine communication.” (intro statement here provided by Exec. Council Member Vince Remillard)

• Support the National Security Language Act!
• Higher Education Alert: International Studies in Higher Education Act
• NCSSFL 2003 Report