This book includes the following chapters: "Literacy and Advanced Foreign Language Learning: Rethinking he Curriculum" (Richard G. Kern); "A Template for Advanced Learner Tasks: Staging Genre Reading and Cultural Literacy Through the Precis" (Janet Swaffar); "Fostering Advanced L2 Literacy: A Genre-Based, Cognitive Approach" (Heidi Byrnes, Katherine A. Sprang); "Heritage Language Speakers and Upper-Division Language Instruction: Findings from a Spanish Linguistics Program" (Daniel J. Villa); "heritage Speakers' Potential for High-Level language Proficiency " (Olga Kagan, Dillon, Kathleen); "Study Abroad for Advanced Foreign Language Majors: Optimal Duration for Developing Complete Structures" (Casilde A. Isabelli); "'What's Business Got to Do with It?': The Unexplored Potential of Business Language Courses for Advanced Foreign Language Learning" (Astrid Weigert); "Fostering Advanced-Level language Abilities in Foreign Language Graduate Programs: Applications of Genre Theory" (Cori Crane, Olga Liamkina, Marianna Ryshina-Pankova); and "Expanding Visions for Collegiate Advanced Foreign Language Learning" (Hiram H. Maxim). (Author/VWL)