Another articulo I found...

My most recent article is "Teaching Language for National Security and American Competitiveness." The title sums up the argument that I am planning to make in my paper, which is nice. In the article, which I found online, it talks about how there is a critical need for foreign language skills because it is necessary for us to advance national security and global competitiveness. The article has some good statistics including the fact that only 31% of elementary schools in the U.S. report teaching foreign languages. And 79% of those schools focus on introduction to the language instead of proficiency. Only 44% of high school students in the U.S. are taking a foreign language. All of these statistics are kind of depressing. What I did not even think about before this article, was the fact that most of these students are only taking Spanish or French. It is really sad that what few students are taking a language, are all taking the same ones. We need to start branching out and learning other languages.