CONTENTS

From the Editor

Rethinking the Foreign Language Curriculum

Reshaping Foreign Language Programs: Implications for Department Chairs
Raymond Gay-Crosier

School-College Articulation and Proficiency Standards: A Status Report
Patricia W. Cummins

The Undergraduate Curriculum in Italian: Coping with Linguistic Diversity atthe University of Toronto
Amilcare A. Iannucci and Marcel Danesi

A Modification of the Dartmouth Intensive Language Model
Anne Winston and Justine Boots

Issues Relating to Language Program Administration

Toward a Professional Model of Language Program Direction
James F. Lee

Training Teaching Assistants
Susan Rava

Making Better Use of the Native Teaching Assistant: Curricular Implications
John R. Gutiérrez

Study-Abroad Programs

Study Abroad and Language Proficiency: Methods of Developing and EvaluatingStudent Skills
Kenneth A. Gordon

Cultural Encounter at Bonn's Akademie Niederberg
Eric Williams, in consultation with Heinrich P. Kelz