The NFLC affiliates with the University of Maryland and moves its offices to College Park, MD.

The LangSource project is funded by the US Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. LangSource is a searchable, annotated bibliographic database of language and culture resources.

Content-Based Instruction:Defining Terms, Making Decisions, is published by Myriam Met in an NFLC report on advances in K–12 language education.

The Evaluation of Exchange, Language, and International Area Studies is funded by the US Department of Education, leading to the development of a web-based data reporting and tracking system for Title VI grantees.

The Language Mission Project is funded by the Henry Luce Foundation to reevaluate the objectives and practices of language teaching and learning at the undergraduate level.

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages coordinates the development and publication of the first edition of the Standards for Foreign Language Learning:Preparing for the 21st Century.

The Mellon Adjunct Fellows program is established by the NFLC. Former Mellon fellows extend their relationship with the NFLC by working on NFLC activities.

Richard Lambert is special editor of Vol. 532 of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science on “Foreign Language Policy:An Agenda for Change.”

Language Planning around the World:Contexts and Systemic Change is published by the NFLC. Richard Lambert is the editor.

“National Strategic Planning in the Less Commonly Taught Languages,” an NFLC occasional paper, is published by Richard Brecht and A. Ronald Walton calling for a shift away from the almost exclusive focus on Western European languages in the nation’s schools to a new policy emphasizing the development of substantive capacity in less commonly taught languages.