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Kramsch, Claire, Tes Howell, Chantelle Warner and Chad Wellmon. 2007. Framing foreign language education in the United States : The case of German. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies 4 (2-3) : 151–178.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | foreign language teaching | globalization | multiculturalism | multilingualism

Language as a subject

German

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper discusses the general crisis of foreign language education, and of German teaching in particular, at American colleges and universities. It is argued that foreign language education ought to be framed as an education in reflexivity on the historical, subjective and indexical discourse dimensions at all curriculum levels.