THIS ENROLLMENT SURVEY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY IN RELIGIOUS SECONDARY SCHOOLS IS THE COMPANION PIECE TO FIVE OTHERS CONDUCTED BY THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION IN THE FALL TERM OF 1959, THE TERM SELECTED AS THE NORM FOR FUTURE CALCULATIONS. THE INTRODUCTORY SURVEY OF THE GROSS NATIONAL PICTURE WITH AN ANALYSIS OF ATTRITION AMONG FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDENTS IS FOLLOWED BY A STUDY OF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY 47 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST SECONDARY SCHOOLS FOR ENROLLMENT IN GRADES 9 TO 12 AND BY 1,463 CATHOLIC PAROCHIAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS, SOME OF WHICH COVERED GRADES 7 TO 12. DATA ARE GIVEN WITH BREAKDOWN BY MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ENROLLMENT AS COMPARED WITH TOTAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE ENROLLMENT, BY INDIVIDUAL LANGUAGE, AND BY LEVEL. SUMMARY TABLES PROVIDE STATISTICS ON EACH LANGUAGE, BY STATE AND BY COURSE LEVEL, AND INCLUDE TOTAL STUDENT ENROLLMENT FOR EACH GRADE LEVEL. THIS DOCUMENT APPEARED AS "FL BULLETIN NUMBER 64" OF THE MLA, JULY 1961. (SS)
- Authorizing Institution
- Modern Language Association of America, New York, NY. Foreign Language Program Research Center.
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Published in
- United States of America
