The report Building the Foreign Language Capacity We Need:Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for a National Language Framework is published by Frederick Jackson from the NFLC and Margaret Malone from the Center for Applied Linguistics.

Chaired by NFLC Director Catherine Ingold, a Maryland governor’s task force prepares a report entitled Preservation of Heritage Language Skills in Maryland.

The NFLC receives a five-year contract to continue administration of the STARTALK program; two new languages are added: Swahili and Turkish.

A new Title-VI International Research and Studies grant is funded by the US Department of Education to develop and publish online collections of modules for the development of novice and intermediate reading skills among high school learners of Modern Standard Arabic and to add to the previously developed Read Chinese! materials.

STARTALK continues funding summer K–12 language learning programs, with the addition of Hindi, Persian, and Urdu.

The STARTALK program, an NSA-funded initiative, is launched by the NFLC; it is designed to increase the number of K–16 students learning Arabic and Chinese and to provide professional development opportunities to teachers of Arabic and Chinese.

The report National Capacity in Language and Area Studies, Post 9/11: An Evaluation of the Impact of Title VI/Fulbright-Hays of the Higher Education Act is published by the NFLC in collaboration with staff at the Center for Advanced Study of Language.

The NFLC begins the initial planning phase for the STARTALK program.

The NFLC receives a US Department of Education International Research and Studies grant to develop and publish online collections of LangNet-based learning modules to develop novice and intermediate level reading skills among high school learners of Mandarin Chinese.

The president’s National Security Language Initiative is announced as a means to increase the number of advanced-level speakers of foreign languages in the United States, with an emphasis on critical need languages. These programs are managed by the Departments of Defense, Education, State, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.