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SPEAKING OF EUROPE - NEWS AND NOTES FROM IFE.
A quarterly letter from IFE about student achievement, developments at IFE, as well as trends, events, context.
It's not that simple and why it shouldn't be
Book Review. The simplification of the world: The loss of ambiguity and diversity by Thomas Bauer. The voice of German historian and Islam scholar Thomas Bauer is a voice we need to hear. After his fresh look at Islamic civilization, Bauer has written...
Briefly. Issue 2
- Language Learning Makes You Better: Here's the science. More findings on the "foreign language effect”...
- IFE Field Study and Internship Program Soon in Marseille. IFE sets up shop in one of the world's...
Your Calling is calling
It's usually not quite that simple, but it is a gratifying surprise to watch an IFE student discover that the work they and their host organization are doing embodies the career they had been imagining for themselves. A couple of examples will tell the...
Why are languages so foreign (to U.S. higher education)?
Most readers of this letter agree on the importance of language acquisition. What can be (and is being) done about the apparent decline of language instruction on the US campus?.
Recommended reading: Language study abroad
Book Review: The Professional Lives of Language Study Abroad Alumni, by Celeste Kinginger and Jingyaun Zhuan.