Centering the Discipline

• Published in: The German quarterly Vol. 73; no. 1; pp. 21 - 25
• Main Author: McCarthy, John A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, etc American Association of Teachers of German 01.01.2000; American Association of Teachers of German, Inc
• Subjects: Articulation; Cultural instruction; Declining Enrollment; Discipline; Energy; Enrollment; Foreign language learning; German as a second language instruction; German as a second language learning; German literature; Higher education; History instruction; Humanities; Humanities instruction; Kinetics; Language instruction; Literary criticism; Nonnative languages; Occupations; Principals; Reading Consultants; Second language learning; Special Feature: Colloquium on the State of the Discipline; Teaching Methods; World language instruction; Writers; North America

"A collection of thoughts on the current state and future of the study of German in the United States". Russell A. Berman "identifies the twin predicaments of declining enrollments and challenging methodological debates, and points to the prospects for cultural transfer, language lear...