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Designing Foreign Language Education for World Understanding—A Shared Responsibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2021

Marjorie C. Johnston*
Affiliation:
Instructional Resources Branch, United States Office of Education

Extract

In the short span of years since Kipling wrote that “East is East and West is West,/And never the twain shall meet” we have witnessed the meeting of East and West. We have become enmeshed in the resulting tangle of dissident philosophies, and who can predict the eventual outcome?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1963

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Footnotes

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An address given at the General Meeting on the Foreign Language Program in Washington, D. C., 29 December 1962. The speaker represented the Department of Foreign Languages of the National Education Association on this program.