ASL fifth-most widely studied “foreign” language</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="ASL fifth-most widely studied “foreign” language"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="ASL,fifth-most,widely,studied,“foreign”,language"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">18-04-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>ASL fifth-most widely studied “foreign” language</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_72lzk2cmrEqdzZQOfJDl_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Ohio, USA (Cleveland plain Dealer): More and more U.S. college students are studying a "foreign" language that is used in this country and expressed with the hands: American Sign Language. College classes in ASL are booming at the same time fewer college students are studying traditional foreign languages such as French, Spanish and Japanese, according to a study by the Modern Language Association. <br>ASL now is the fifth-most widely studied foreign language at four-year colleges, behind Spanish, French, German and Italian, the study showed. At two-year colleges, ASL ranked second, with only Spanish attracting more students. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/111373914754082.xml " target="blank">www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/111373914754082.xml </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show