“…Recent literature (see Byrnes, Maxim, & Norris, ; Doyle, ; Kym, ; Miñana, ; Pancrazio, ) has also included descriptions of specific curricular reforms that have been undertaken in foreign language departments around the country as a direct result of the MLA reports (2007, 2009), the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines (), the National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project (), and other scholarship related to foreign language education. For example, Miñana () documented the transformation of one department from the Department of Spanish to the Department of Spanish, Latino/a, and Latin American Studies.…”