1. Our working definition is as follows:

A Diverse Learner is any learner who displays or establishes differences in the following ways:

• race
  
• ethnicity
  
• cultural background
  
• linguistic background
  
• age
  
• religion
  
• gender
  
• sexual orientation
  
• learning, emotional, or physical disability
  
• giftedness
  
• socioeconomic status, or
  
• at-risk status.
  

2. For the ACTFL Roundtable discussion the subcommittee prepared "Knowledge Bases for Teaching a Foreign Language to Diverse Learners."