An Alternative to the Foreign Language Teaching Profession. Lektos: Interdisciplinary Working Papers in Language Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 2.

The traditional discipline of foreign language teaching is ineffective and in trouble and should be replaced with a new, broader field. The new discipline should lay emphasis on the following: (1) awareness of cultural and linguistic diversity in the United States and Canada as well as abroad, (2) meeting the needs of students from all areas of society, (3) teaching children from the earliest grades on, (4) goal-oriented communicative competence, (5) language instruction embedded in cultural education, and (6) training of teachers in the behavioral sciences. (JB)