The second Heritage Language Conference is held in Vienna, VA, with sponsorship by the NFLC and the Center for Applied Linguistics.

Recursos para la Enseñanza y el Aprendizaje de las Culturas Hispanas (REACH), a language and culture project for heritage learners of Spanish, is completed by the NFLC.

The first Heritage Language Conference is held in Long Beach, CA, with sponsorship by the NFLC and the Center for Applied Linguistics.

The LangNet program is developed by the NFLC as part of a federal interagency initiative. LangNet is a state-of-the-art online foreign language learning and maintenance system for advanced language learners.

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.

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

The NFLC hosts a discussion forum to address foreign language planning and to examine how the United States can meet the growing requirements in this area. This forum resulted in an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, “Scaling the Language Barrier.”