Reports Content-Based Instruction: Defining Terms, Making Decisions

Hopkins University in 1987 with support from major private foundations, is dedicated to improving the foreign language competency of Americans. The NFLC emphasizes the formulation of public policy to make our language teaching systems responsive to national needs. Its primary tools in carrying out this objective are:- Surveys. The NFLC conducts surveys to collect previously unavailable information on issues concerning national strength and productivity in foreign language instruction, and our foreign language needs in the service of the economic, diplomatic and security interests of the nation.- National policy planning groups. In order to address major foreign language policy issues, the NFLC convenes national planning groups that bring together users of foreign language services and representatives of the language instructional delivery systems in formal education, the government and the for-profit sector.- Research. The NFLC conducts research on innovative, primarily individual oriented strategies of language learning to meet the nation’s needs of the future., In addition, the NFLC maintains an Institute of Advanced Studies where individual scholars work on projects of their own choosing. The results of these surveys, discussion and research are made available through the NFLC’s publications, such as these Reports, and they form the basis of fresh policy recommendations addressed to national leaders and decision makers. About the NFLC Report