Teacher Survey I
General Survey
1. How many schools are there in this district?
______ elementary schools (grades _____ through _____)
______ junior high schools/ middle schools (grades _____ through
______)
______ high schools (grades _____ through _______)
______ other (explain: ____________________________________________________________)
2. How many students are there in the entire district? __________
3. How many different foreign and ancient languages are taught
in this district? __________
4. In your opinion, in an ideal situation, would the district
offer more languages than it is offering right now? ______ (If
you answered no, skip to question 8.)
5. Which additional languages would be added, in an ideal
situation? ______________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Why did you choose the languages listed above? ____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
7. What factors prevent the district from currently offering
the languages you listed in question 5?
_____Lack of funding
_____Lack of qualified teachers
_____Lack of interest among students
_____Lack of time in studentsí schedules
_____Lack of student aptitude in language study
_____Lack of classroom space
_____Resistance from the community
_____Resistance from administrators or school board
Other: _____________________________________________________________________________________
8. Please rank the following languages by how difficult they
are to be learned by a native speaker of American English, in
your opinion. The language you rank 1 will be the easiest, and
the language you rank 11 will be the most difficult.
_____French
_____Spanish
_____Italian
_____German
_____Russian
_____Chinese
_____Japanese
_____Latin
_____Ancient Greek
_____Hebrew
_____Arabic
_____It makes no difference.
9. Do you have any additional comments? (Please use the back
of this page if you need more space.)
Please continue to the language surveys.
Complete one language survey for each language offered by the
school district.
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