CONTENTS

From the Editor

Reader Response

MLA Statement on the Curriculum Debate

PERSPECTIVES ON THE PROFESSION

On the Assesment of Teaching
Mario J. Valdés

Professor of French— and Proud of It!
Peter Conroy

Between Scylla and Charybdis: Teaching and Research on the Academic Deep
Tamara M. Green

PROGRAMS AND POLICIES

Study Abroad: Paris
Rouben Cholakian

Strategies for Successful Hiring
Ann Bugliani

Cultural Diversity and the Foreign Language Program: Foreign Language Departments and the New Multiculturalism
Edward J. Mullen

PROFICIENCY: THE DEBATE CONTINUES

Rejecting the OPI—Again: A Response to Hagen
James P. Lantolf and William Frawley

THE CLASSROOM AND THE CURRICULUM

Teacher-Student Style Wars in the Language Classroom: Research Insights and Suggestions
Rebecca L. Oxford and Roberta Z. Lavine

An Experiment Using the “Master-Teacher” Concept in Conjunction with Closed-Circuit Television in Elementary French Classes
Leonard J. Rahilly

Second-Language-Acquisition Research and Foreign Language Teaching, Part I
Bill Van Patten