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The article reports that officials of national organizations representing foreign-language teachers in the United States have criticized the ideas and planning behind a National Foreign Language Center being established at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C. Officials claim that the center's director Richard D. Lambert had maligned the language-teaching profession by suggesting in a background paper that it was fragmented and disorganized. Also, language teachers are concerned that the center would attract funds needed by other groups.

Offers a look at the issues presented by humanities scholars, who see their growing estrangement from mainstream discourse, at the 120th Modern Language Associations convention in the U.S. in 2004. Papers that were featured in the proceedings; Focus of much of the discussion at the annual meeting over the past years; Books that were cited by the association's outgoing president Robert Scholes, used to assess the state of literary and language studies.

The article presents several deadlines related to educational fellowships, grant proposals, and scholarly papers on April 1981 in the U.S. The deadline for the applications in the National Endowment Fellowship Program will be on April 24. The deadline for the applications for grants for new objects under the undergraduate international-studies and foreign language program will be on April 20.

Provides information on the Affected Accent Summer Camp (AASC) which offers seminars about learning foreign accent for professors and graduate students in the U.S. Goals of the program; Language seminars offered by AASC; Remarks from several educators regarding the seminar.