ERIC Number: ED590075
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Feb
Pages: 20
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Enrollments in Languages Other than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Summer 2016 and Fall 2016: Preliminary Report
Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia
Modern Language Association
This report describes lower- and upper-level undergraduate and graduate course enrollments in languages other than English in summer and fall 2016 reported by 2,547 AA-, BA-, MA-, and PhD-granting colleges and universities in the United States. Between fall 2013 and fall 2016, enrollments in languages other than English fell 9.2% in colleges and universities in the United States; of the fifteen most commonly taught languages, only Japanese and Korean showed gains in enrollments.
Descriptors: College Students, Language Enrollment, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends, Japanese, Korean, American Sign Language, French, Chinese, Greek, Semitic Languages, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Modern Language Association of America
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