Pre-Summit Survey: Summary
of Results
Enrollments and Communications
1. Is your general impression that enrollments for your language(s)
(at your institutions) are increasing, decreasing or remaining about
the same? See
summary of results (40 respondents)
2. Why do students take courses in your language? See
summary of results (39 respondents)
3. Do you communicate regularly with other teachers in your language?
With teachers of other Less Commonly Taught Languages? How? See
summary of results (39 respondents)
Teacher Education
4. How are LCTL teachers (at your institution or others you know
about) prepared for language teaching? See
summary of results
5. Did you receive any formal or specialized teacher training for
language teaching in general or for teaching your particular language(s)?
See
summary of results (41 respondents)
6. Do you know of training for teachers of French, German and Spanish?
If so, do you think LCTL teachers could benefit from similar education?
See
summary of results
Materials Availability
7. Do you use a published textbook in your class? If so, when was
it published? Is the target audience of the text North Americans?
See
summary of results (40 respondents)
8. What kinds of other curricular material do you use on a regular
basis? See
summary of results (38 respondents)
9. What kinds of curricular material would you like to use, if
they were easily available? See
summary of results (38 respondents)
Delivery Systems
10. Describe the governance / administrative organization (or structure)
in your situation (e.g.; language and literature courses in one unit;
separate language unit; share budget with other LCTLs, more commonly
taught languages; area studies; independent study). See
summary of results (42 respondents)
11. What kinds of technology help you in your teaching? What other
kinds of technology would help you? See
summary of results (44 respondents)
12. Please describe your teaching situation if it involves audiences
other than traditional secondary or post-secondary students (e.g.,
community ed, heritage classes, church-related classes, correspondence
courses, distance education) See
summary of results (43 respondents) |
