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SPEAKING OF EUROPE - NEWS AND NOTES FROM IFE.
A quarterly letter from IFE about student achievement, developments at IFE, as well as trends, events, context.

Your Calling is calling
It's usually not quite that simple, but it is a gratifying surprise to watch an IFE student discover that the work they and their host organization are doing embodies the career they had been imagining for themselves. A couple of examples will tell the...

Why are languages so foreign (to U.S. higher education)?
Most readers of this letter agree on the importance of language acquisition. What can be (and is being) done about the apparent decline of language instruction on the US campus?.

Recommended reading: Language study abroad
Book Review: The Professional Lives of Language Study Abroad Alumni, by Celeste Kinginger and Jingyaun Zhuan.