CONTENTS

From the Editor

RETHINKING WHAT AND HOW WE TEACH

The Construct of the Near-Native Speaker in the Foreign Language Profession: Perspectives on Ideologies about Language
Guadalupe Valdés

Restructuring Language Departments: Going Down the (Little) Rocky Road
David McAlpine

Saving Small Foreign Language Programs: Is Cooperation the Answer?
Karen Hardy Cárdenas

Foreign Language Instruction through Interactive Television at Northern Arizona University
Daniel Eisenberg

Teaching Literary-Dramatic Texts as Culture-in-Process in the Foreign Language Theater Practicum: The Strategy of Combining Texts
Les Essif

TWO VIEWS OF GRADUATE EDUCATION

Our Ethical Commitments to the Graduate Students We Train: A Modest and a Not-So-Modest Proposal
Pennylyn Dykstra-Prium

Getting Away from German: What Graduate Students in German Must Consider about Their Future
Dale K. Huffman

FORUM

Response to Dorothy James, “Bypassing the Traditional Leadership: Who's Minding the Store?”: Part 2
Heidi Byrnes, Christopher Kleinhenz, Walter Mignolo, Mary Louise Pratt, Nelson H. Vieira

Reply from Dorothy James