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The State of Languages in the U.S.: A Statistical Portrait

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Estimate of Language Skills of U.S. Population Aged Five Years and Older, 2009鈥2013

The estimate of the share of the total population that speaks a non-English language at home is based on the American Community Survey. See United States Census Bureau, 鈥淒etailed Languages Spoken at Home and Ability to Speak English for the Population 5 Years and Over for United States: 2009-2013,鈥 American Community Survey, October 2015, . Estimate of skill levels of adults eighteen and older drawn from Tom W. Smith, Peter Marsden, Michael Hout, and Jibum Kim, General Social Surveys, 1972鈥2014 [machine-readable data file] (Chicago: National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, 2016), . Skill levels for children imputed using available research.

Main Languages Spoken at Home by U.S. Residents Aged Five Years and Older, 2008鈥2010

American Community Survey, 2008鈥2010 merged files as quoted in Rub茅n G. Rumbaut and Douglas S. Massey, 鈥淚mmigration and Language Diversity in the United States,鈥 顿忙诲补濒耻蝉 142 (3) (Summer 2013): 146.

Dimensions of Non-English Language Proficiency, by Generation, in Southern California, 2001鈥2004

Alejandro Portes and Rub茅n G. Rumbaut, Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), 1991鈥2006, ICPSR20520.v2 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2012), ; and Rub茅n G. Rumbaut, Frank D. Bean, Leo R. Ch谩vez et al., Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles (IIMMLA), 2004, ICPSR22627.v1 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2008), . See also Rub茅n G. Rumbaut, 鈥淓nglish Plus: Exploring the Socioeconomic Benefits of Bilingualism in Southern California,鈥 in The Bilingual Advantage: Language, Literacy, and the U.S. Labor Market, ed. Rebecca M. Callahan and Patricia C. G谩ndara (Bristol, United Kingdom: Multilingual Matters, 2014).

Language Shift and Bilingualism, by Generation, in Southern California, 2001鈥2004

Merged samples of Portes and Rumbaut, Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study; and Rumbaut et al., Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles.

Where English-Speaking Adults Who Are Fluent in Another Language Acquired the Non-English Language, 2006

Analysis of data collected by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago in the General Social Survey for the Humanities Indicators.

Share of Elementary Schools Teaching Languages Other than English, by Control of School, Academic Years 1986/1987鈥2007/2008

Nancy C. Rhodes and Ingrid Pufahl, Foreign Language Teaching in U.S. Schools: Results of a National Survey (Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 2010), 22.

Share of All K鈥12 Students Enrolled in Language Courses Other than English, by State, 2014鈥2015

American Councils for International Education, American Council on the Teaching for Foreign Languages, Center for Applied Linguistics, and Modern Language Association, The National K鈥16 Foreign Language Enrollment Report 2014鈥15 (Washington, D.C.: American Councils for International Education, 2016), . Statistics on European students from Eurostats, 鈥淔oreign Language Learning Statistics,鈥 September 2016, .

Share of Secondary Schools Teaching Languages Other than English, by School Level, Academic Years 1986/1987鈥2007/2008:

Rhodes and Pufahl, Foreign Language Teaching in U.S. Schools: Results of a National Survey, 23.

Estimate of the Number of Months Students in Dual-Language Immersion Classes are Ahead of their Peers in Monolingual Classrooms in English Reading Skills, 2012鈥2015

RAND Corporation, American Councils for International Education, and Portland Public Schools, 鈥淪tudy of Dual-Language Immersion in the Portland Public Schools: Year 4 Briefing,鈥 November 2015, . See also Jennifer L. Steele, Robert O. Slater, Gema Zamarro, Trey Miller, Jennifer Li, Susan Burkhauser, and Michael Bacon, 鈥淭he Effects of Dual-Language Immersion Programs on Student Achievement: Evidence from Lottery Data,鈥 American Educational Research Journal (Centennial Issue) 53 (5) (forthcoming).

Number of Language Teachers in Public High Schools, 2003/2004鈥2011/2012

Humanities Indicators analysis of data in Beth A. Morton, Pia Peltola, Michael D. Hurwitz et al., Education and Certification Qualifications of Departmentalized Public High School鈥揕evel Teachers of Core Subjects: Evidence from the 2003鈥04 Schools and Staffing Survey (Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, 2008), 27; Jason G. Hill and Kerry J. Gruber, Education and Certification Qualifications of Departmentalized Public High School鈥揕evel Teachers of Core Subjects: Evidence from the 2007鈥08 Schools and Staffing Survey (Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, 2011); and Jason Hill and Chelsea Stearns, Education and Certification Qualifications of Departmentalized Public High School鈥揕evel Teachers of Selected Subjects: Evidence from the 2011鈥12 Schools and Staffing Survey (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2015).

Distribution of Postsecondary Course Enrollments in Languages Other than English, 2013

Humanities Indicators analysis of data in Modern Language Association, Language Enrollment Database, (accessed March 28, 2016). Tabulation excludes enrollments in American Sign Language, which had the third-largest number of enrollments in language other than English.

Postsecondary Enrollments in the Most Commonly Taken Language Courses (Other than English), 1960鈥2013

Ibid.

Postsecondary Enrollments in the Most Commonly Taken 鈥淐ritical Need鈥 Language Courses, 1965鈥2013

Ibid.

Undergraduate Degrees in Languages Other than English, by Geographical Category or Subject Area, 1987鈥2014

Humanities Indicators analysis of data in National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS [Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System] (U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences), accessed and analyzed via the National Science Foundation鈥檚 online data system, WebCASPAR, . For an inventory of the specific degree programs included in the broad disciplinary categories of the humanities accounted for in this indicator, see . Geographical aggregations are based on the Modern Language Association, Language Enrollment Database, 1958鈥2013, . Due to the disproportionate size in the current number of Spanish degrees, degrees in the subject are tabulated separately from the other European languages.

Professional-Level Proficiency by Graduation: Measured Outcomes of Integrated Study Abroad in the Language Flagship Programs, 2013鈥2014

Dan E. Davidson, 鈥淭he Development of L2 Proficiency and Literacy within the Context of the Federally Supported Overseas Language Training Programs for Americans,鈥 in To Advanced Proficiency and Beyond: Theory and Methods for Developing Superior Second-Language Ability, ed. Tony Brown and Jennifer Bown (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2015), 117鈥150. Language Flagship partners and funders available at .

Number of Online Job Postings in Massachusetts Seeking Bilingual Candidates, 2010 and 2015

Partnership for a New American Economy, 鈥淟anguage Diversity and the Workforce: The Growing Need for Bilingual Workers in New Jersey鈥檚 Economy,鈥 (accessed September 1, 2016); Partnership for a New American Economy, 鈥淟anguage Diversity and the Workforce: The Growing Need for Bilingual Workers in the Massachusetts Economy,鈥 (accessed September 1, 2016); and Northern Illinois University, 鈥淏ilingual College Grads are in Demand, Says NIU Survey,鈥 (accessed September 1, 2016).