Jürgen Kurtz, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
View this series of videos from Language Learning in the 21st century – Innovative Language Classroom on the Hill, a highly interesting US policy briefing and classroom demonstration hosted by ACTFL and the Parternership for 21st Century Skills on March 29, 2011.
Foreign Language Education in the 21st Century 
I am greatly amazed at the amazing language instruction featured in these video clips. In particular, I was astonished at the Chinese teacher’s lesson with her elementary school children. I anxiously look forward to sharing these videos with my administrators and colleagues to show them that effective learning of a second language should occur at an early age. The human brain is so malleable at younger ages, and one must harness such malleability to encourage language learning.