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Modern Foreign Languages in Teacher-Training Colleges

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In the spring of 1955, questionnaires (requesting information concerning modern foreign language offerings in 1955–56, foreign language entrance and degree requirements, and foreign language faculty) were sent to 281 undergraduate institutions accredited for teacher training.1 All replied, but in some cases catalogues were consulted to supplement or clarify questionnaire data. For this survey the institutions were grouped into three homogeneous categories: (A) independent teachers colleges (108 four-year institutions whose names specify a teacher-training purpose and which are not constituents of a university2); (B) university schools of education (72 four-year institutions, variously designated as schools of education, colleges of education, or, rarely, teachers colleges, which are constituents of a community of colleges and professional schools); (C) other colleges accredited for teacher-training (101 four-year institutions which seem to emphasize a liberal arts or technical program, but also feature approved courses of study for teacher-candidates).

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PMLA , Volume 70 , Issue 4-Part2 , September 1955, pp. 69 - 77
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1955

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1 The official accrediting agency is the newly formed (1954) National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (Mills Building, 17th St. & Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington 6, D. C). The First Annual List (effective 1 July 1954 to 30 June 1955) contains 285 institutions, but 2 of these are graduate in nature (Grad. School of Educ., Harvard Univ., and Dept. of Educ. of the Grad. School, Yale Univ.) and hence not pertinent to this study; the single extraterritorial institution (Univ. of Puerto Rico) was omitted from this survey; and one teachers college has been absorbed by another (Stowe Teachers College by Harris Teachers College, both in St. Louis, Mo.).

2 The 11 state teachers colleges of New York are included here since the State University of New York, to which they belong, is an administrative arrangement with widely scattered components, rather than a physical cluster of schools and colleges.

3 Oscar L. Parker, “A Survey of Foreign Language Courses Offered in the Teachers Colleges of the United States,” MLJ, xv (May 1931), 633–635. The 137 colleges studied were nearly all of the accredited institutions of that time; an official 1931–32 list of 140 4-year institutions accredited by the Amer. Assoc. of Teachers Colleges was published in American Colleges and Universities (Washington, D. C, 1932), pp. 80–82.