Why does the United States need to celebrate 2005 as the year of languages? / Christine Brown -- Fostering philoxenia : understanding and integrating culture / Lee Wilberschied -- Effecting change both within and beyond the profession / Marty Abbott, Audrey Heining-Boynton -- Ignorance is not bliss : the critical importance of U.S. foreign language education in the 21st century / Keiran Dunne -- Preparing future foreign language teachers through digital portfolio initiatives / Christopher Luke -- Core? You bet! Advocating for world language programs in the age of accountability / Deborah W. Robinson, Charles E. Conway -- Challenge of language learning in Wyoming / Brandee Mau -- L-LINCC : choosing electronic networking for collaborative communities / Rebecca Chism -- Finding a place in the core : the ongoing challenge to world languages in an urban school district / Gaelle Berg -- Optimizing student success : focused curriculum, meaningful assessment, and effective instruction / Aleidine Moeller -- Extending the foreign language classroom with technology : creating computerized oral activities and tests / Janet Flewelling & Donald Snider -- Changes in curriculum, assessment, and instruction : assessing distance applications to foreign language learning / Carolyn Gascoigne -- Challenges and triumphs of communicative distance instruction / Lisa Fournier Kowaleski, Darcy Lear, Janice Macian -- Computers in the modern language classroom : voice recordings and PowerPoint as tools for student empowerment / Jeanette Hecker -- Teaching cultures : a bringing together of cultures, cultural elements, and resources / Melissa Kentner -- Grammar feedback techniques to promote metacognitive reflection in student writing / Deborah Page, Ruth Benander, Teresa Roig-Torres -- Documenting and improving student learning through LinguaFolios / Aleidine Moeller, Vickie Scow, Jacque Bott Van Houten -- Learning to participate, communicate, and cooperate in the language classroom / Tatiana Sildus -- Reaching beyond the classroom : ideas for using weblogs in language education / Cendel Karaman, Harun Serpil -- Choices in language learning : an imminent call to respond to A new world need / Kristin Hoyt, Jacque Bott Van Houten -- New world : challenging the impediments of the status quo / Tom Welch -- Assessment, emotional scaffolding, and technology : powerful allies in the K-12 world language classroom / Connie Fredericks-Malone, Nancy Gadbois -- Service learning, German culture, and intercultural competence / Isolde Mueller -- Enticing poetry : a technologically-enhanced approach to the study of German / Jörg Waltje -- Power of languages : why we learn them / Helene Zimmer-Loew