The growing U.S. Latino dispersal is allowing for more interactions between students of Spanish and native Spanish speakers. By working with Latino community members, Spanish instructors help meet the standards for foreign language education developed by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. This article describes 2 projects.…

This was a study of a short-term service-learning study abroad program to Ghana, West Africa. The research examined 7 participants' attitudes about and behavioral changes in response to study abroad. How the short-term study abroad experience enhanced and broadened the participants' exposure to other cultures was also studied. The purpose of the…