Table
    of Contents


    

      
Introduction
      
Methods
      
Research
      
Which
      Languages Are Taught?
      
Attitude
      Toward Difficulty of Languages
      
Reasons
      for Choosing a Language
      
Conclusion
      
Bibliography
      
E-mail the creator of this page
      
Liddy's Web World
      
Honors Tutorial: Second Language Acquisition
      
Mt
      Holyoke College
    

    
 


    
Bibliography and Credits
 

        
 Works Cited

        
 Internet Credits

        
 Personal Thanks
   

    
Works
    Cited


    
"50 Most-Spoken Languages in the World."
    InfoPlease.Com. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774735.html

    
Baggs, Cheryl et.al. "Developing Successful
    Strategies for Articulation and Outreach." October 25, 1996
    MaFLA Conference.

    
CareerMosaic Jobs Search. http://www.careermosaic.com/cm/jobs.html

    
Massachusetts Foreign Language Association.
    1994 Public School Survey.

    
Omaggio Hadley, Alice. Teaching Language
    in Context. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1993.

    
"Persons Speaking a Language Other
    Than English at Home. InfoPlease.Com. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762163.html

    
Pinker, Stephen. The Language Instinct.
    New York: Harper Perennial, 1994.

    
Internet
    Credits


    
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Personal
    Thanks


    
Primary thanks go to the students and educators
    who took time to complete my survey. You gave me a wonderful
    spread of data and made my work much easier. Thank you for your
    prompt responses!

    
More thanks to: Jennifer Shupe for letting
    me print out graphs on her computer, Sarah Gerchman for testing
    my surveys, Vaughn Barry for collating my surveys, and Mount
    Holyoke College for providing me with a dizzying array of resources,
    from computers to postage.

    
Thanks, too, to Cherie Baggs for providing
    me with a list of language department heads of Massachusetts
    and with information from MaFLA - it was extremely helpful!

    
And of course, a million thanks to Joanna
    Sturiano and Alexis LeCount, my fellow tutorialites, and Donna
    VanHandle, who led us in this odyssey, bought us ice cream and
    mint milanos and attempted to teach me "pure" HTML!
    :-) Sorry, I'm more of an Adobe PageMill gal.