WASHINGTON -- More students are pursuing intermediate- or advanced-level study in Arabic. But not all Arabic programs are created equal, and significant disparities exist in indicators of student learning across universities, according to data from a new study on Middle Eastern language learning presented Thursday. Long-term, presenters stressed that prevailing teaching conditions -- with large swaths of the instructor corps untenured or part-time -- represent a serious obstacle to the achievement of the nation’s strategic language goals.
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