The U.S. Foreign Language Deficit

PART I: THE EXTENT AND IMPACT OF THE U.S. FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEFICIT.- Chapter 1: The Current Status of Languages in the United States.- Chapter 2: The Extent and Impact of the U.S. Foreign Language Deficit.- Chapter 3: The Career Connection -- Foreign Languages as a Career Asset:  The Importance of Foreign Language Knowledge and Intercultural Competence.- PART II FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING -- THE BENEFITS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING.- Chapter 4: The Importance of Foreign Language Skills in International Education and Education for Global Citizenship.- Chapter 5: A Brief History of Foreign Language Learning in the United States.- Chapter 6: Developing Foreign Language Capacity in the U.S. -- Heritage Language and Immersion Programs.- PART III: THE CAMPAIGN FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGES -- THE STRATEGIC CAMPAIGN FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGES:  CHANGE LEADERSHIP; INFLUENCE AND PERSUASION: AND A SOCIAL MARKETING CAMPAIGN.- Chapter 7: Addressing the U.S. Foreign Language Deficit -- The Campaign for Foreign Languages.- Chapter 8: Current Trends -- Multilingualism as a Global Trend.- Chapter 9: Challenges -- Getting Students Interested in Foreign Languages and Keeping Them Interested.- Chapter 10: Encouraging Signs -- -- Advocacy, Biliteracy, and Creativity.- Chapter 11: The Resurgence of Foreign Languages in the U.S..- Chapter 12: Conclusions and Future Directions -- From the Foreign Language Deficit to Foreign Languages 2.0.- Concluding Thought: Foreign Languages 2.0 -- Curriculum and Careers for a Changed World.

Kathleen Stein-Smith is Associate University Librarian at Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus, USA, and Chair of AATF Commission on Advocacy and member of ATA Education & Pedagogy Committee. She has taught foreign languages at high school and college level, taught adult learners, delivered TEDx talk on the U.S. foreign language deficit, and is author of 2 books and several articles.