"AAUSC 2009"--Cover.

Pt. 1. Historical perspectives: past, present, and future -- A great rattling of dry bones: the emergence of national standards in the early 20th century / H. Jay Siskin -- The national standards at the postsecondary level: a blueprint and framework for change / Robert M. Terry -- Strengthening the connection between content and communication / June K. Phillips -- In search of relevance: the standards and the undergraduate foreign language curriculum / Heather Willis Allen -- pt. 2. Curricular reform: shifting paradigms -- A chronicle of standards-based curricular reform in a research university / Elizabeth Bernhardt, Guadalupe Valdes, Alice Miano -- Reconceptualizing the goals for foreign language learning: the role of pragmatics instruction / Lisa DeWaard Dykstra -- Using online forums to integrate the standards into the foreign language curriculum / Ana Oskoz -- pt. 3. Literature and culture: closing divides -- A standards-based framework for the teaching of literature within the context of globalization / Jean Marie Schultz -- Incorporating the standards into a 3R model of literary and cultural analysis / Eileen Ketchum McEwan -- Teaching culture: the standards as an optic on curriculum development / Katherine Arens.