CONTENTS

From the Editor

BRIDGING GAPS IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFESSION

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE

Language and Literature: False Dichotomies, Real Allies
Marva A. Barnett

Language Proficiency and Textual Theory: How the Twain Might Meet
Donald B. Rice

Skinside Inside: The National Literature Major versus Comparative Literature
Judith Ryan

A Nondepartmentalized Model for Intercultural Studies of Foreign Literature and Film
Dieter Adolphs, Sandra Boschetto, and Diane Shoos

Increasing the Effectiveness of Foreign Language Reading Instruction, Part 2
Gerard J. Westhoff

TEACHING AND TESTING

Foreign Language Testing, Part 1: Its Breadth
John W. Oller, Jr.

Assessing the Gain in Oral Proficiency from Summer Foreign Study
Margo Milleret

FUNCTIONS OF FACULTY MEMBERS

Teaching, Research, Service: The Concept of Faculty Workload
Howard Mancing

GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE

Minding Our Business
Susan Rava

Majoring in French: An Alumni Perspective
Gerald Herman

Back Matter Spring 1991