{"59205":{"#nid":"59205","#data":{"type":"news","title":"McKnight Refutes AJC Column","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a July 13th column in the Atlanta Journal Constitution online, Phil McKnight, Professor of German and Chairman of the Ivan Allen College School of Modern Languages, rebutted assertions made by a previous guest columnist who questioned the utility of Georgia students learning French. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EForeign Languages Enhance Creative Thinking \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nby Phil McKnight\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJim Motter wrote recently that his son will not qualify to use German in the International Plan at Georgia Tech and that while Spanish, Mandarin, Latin and German are desirable languages in high school, French \u0022is a waste of time.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAll languages we teach at Tech have a vital place in the curriculum, which focuses on developing effective intercultural communication skills, a positive attitude toward cultural identity differences and the ability to articulate global aspects of emerging intercultural and international challenges like climate change, immigration and technology.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA new generation of students has expressed a strong desire to become more globally aware and competent. Even without a formal foreign language requirement, our enrollments have more than doubled recently as we have integrated foreign language study into a broad interdisciplinary configuration to respond to student demand.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a result: A staggering 20 percent of undergraduates are enrolled in foreign languages, compared to just 8.6 percent for all U.S. colleges.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"In a July 13th column in the Atlanta Journal Constitution online, Phil McKnight, Professor of German and Chairman of the Ivan Allen College School of Modern Languages, rebutted assertions made by a previous guest columnist who questioned the utility of Georgia students learning French.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"McKnight Vindicates Study of Foreign Languages"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2009-07-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:46","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"59206":{"id":"59206","type":"image","title":"tuf79480.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176221","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:01","changed":"1475894390","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:50","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190911","name":"tuf79480.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tuf79480_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tuf79480_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":33458,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tuf79480_0.jpg?itok=kC_3ly84"}}},"media_ids":["59206"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.modlangs.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Modern Languages"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.modlangs.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff\/people.php?name=Mcknight,Phil","title":"Phil McKnight"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/opinion\/foreign-languages-enhance-creative-89939.html","title":"Read Full Article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10108","name":"AJC rebuttal"},{"id":"10109","name":"Foreign Languages"},{"id":"3016","name":"French"},{"id":"10107","name":"Phil McKnight"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=rkeane3\u0022\u003EContact Rebecca Keane\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-1720\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}