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The MLA and the Study of Foreign Languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Robert G. Mead Jr
Robert G. Mead Jr*
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University of Connecticut, Storrs
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In surveying the contributions of the Modern Language Association of America to the teaching and study of foreign languages in our country, especially during the last three decades, I hope to recapture the mood and spirit of past events and to pay tribute to those colleagues who took leading parts in them. This is not an easy task, but it is a welcome and a challenging one. Many of these colleagues are deceased, others are retired, and few if any of us during those intensely active years, I suspect, gave much thought to the task of gathering materials and memories for a chronicle of the MLA's role in the development of foreign language study. But it was an inspired and inspiring time—one happier than the present for education in our country—and I am grateful for the opportunity to set down a brief, personal, and inevitably incomplete memoir.

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PMLA , Volume 99 , Issue 3: Centennial Issue , May 1984 , pp. 340 - 355
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1984

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