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Foreign Language Offerings and Enrollments in Public Secondary Schools, Fall 1958

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

J. Wesley Childers
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This report is the result of the first of a series of investigations on the current status of foreign languages in elementary and secondary schools and in institutions of higher learning in the United States. It is a part of the Statistical Research Project of the Modern Language Association of America under a contract from the United States Office of Education, authorized under the National Defense Education Act of 1958. Subsequent reports will present data for 1959 on foreign languages in the elementary schools, in public and independent secondary schools, and in colleges and universities.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 76 , Issue 2 , May 1961 , pp. 36 - 50
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1961

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References

Note 1 in page 37 PMLA, lxx (Sept. 1955, Part 2), pp. 52–56. This report, prepared by Donald D. Walsh, was based on returns from forty of the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia.

Note 2 in page 37 For the eight states missing from the 1954 report (Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, and Texas), per cents for 1948 were used.

Note 3 in page 37 Including the District of Columbia.

Note 4 in page 38 “Other” languages (total 5909). Arizona : Portuguese, 25. California : Chinese I, 16; II, 5; Hebrew I, 79; II, 52; III, 23; total 175. Connecticut : Hebrew I, 16; Polish I, 23; Swedish I, 23; total 62. Hawaii : Hawaiian I, 96. Illinois : Polish, 244; Swedish, 108; total 352. Massachusetts : Hebrew I and II, 15; III and IV, 19; Modern Greek I, 24; II, 7; Polish I, 69; II, 19; Portuguese I, 301; II, 103; total 557. Minnesota : Norwegian, 105; Swedish, 97; total 202. New Jersey : Hebrew I, 44; II, 25; III, 16; total 85. New York : Modern Greek I, 3; Hebrew I, 2247; II, 1288; III, 305; IV, 38; Norwegian I, 25; II, 20; total 3926. Ohio : Hebrew I, 55; II, 33; total 88. Pennsylvania : Polish, 144. Rhode Island : Portuguese I, 83; II, 47; total 130. Texas : Czech, 7. Washington : Norwegian, 60.

Note 5 in page 38 Total foreign language enrollments include all modern languages, Latin, and Ancient Greek. Three states reported enrollments in Ancient Greek: Indiana (Greek I, 113); Massachusetts (Greek I, 42; II, 46; III, 13); Rhode Island (Greek I, 13).

Note 6 in page 39 See additional comments on Latin in the discussion of Table 11.

Note 7 in page 40 Latin per cents come first in the parentheses.

Note 8 in page 40 Modem foreign language per cents come first in the parentheses.

Note 9 in page 40 Except for French in Missississippi (.8) and in South Dakota (.9).