'Don't know much about the French I took' A contemporary case for second language study in the liberal arts

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Arts and Humanities in Higher Education

Abstract

Language study can be immensely valuable, but language educators have typically relied on arguments and defenses of second/foreign language study that confuse the benefits of language knowledge with those of language study. In this article, an effort is made to identify three kinds of alternative arguments (epistemological, socio-political, and interpersonal) that might be used for advocating second/ foreign language study as part of the general education of the university student. Copyright © 2004, SAGE PUBLICATIONS.

Volume

3

Issue

2

First Page

229

Last Page

239

DOI

10.1177/1474022204042688

ISSN

14740222

E-ISSN

1741265X

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