From “Foreign Languages” to “World Languages” within U.S. Institutions: Abandoning Misleading Terminologies

Authors

  • Roger Anderson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32674/cisr.v1i1.4869

Keywords:

foreign language, world language, label, monolingualism, multilingualism

Abstract

This article unpacks “foreign” in “foreign language education”, demonstrating that the term marginalizes, misrepresents, and misleads the U.S. towards a less interculturally competent version of itself. Instead of foreign, “world languages” is better reflective of the country’s rich cultural diversity and linguistic landscape, while honoring -not othering- its multilingual inhabitants.

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Published

2022-06-21

How to Cite

Anderson, R. (2022). From “Foreign Languages” to “World Languages” within U.S. Institutions: Abandoning Misleading Terminologies. Critical Internationalization Studies Review, 1(1), 3–5. https://doi.org/10.32674/cisr.v1i1.4869

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022)

Section

Critical Voices

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