This journal issue offers six articles all on the theme of French and English foreign language learning in German elementary Schools: "Foreign Language Learning in the Elementary School: A Beginning" (Hartmut Breitkreuz); "Thoughts on the Commencement of Foreign Language Learning in the Elementary School" (Gundi Gompf); "Foreign Language Instruction in the Elementary Schools of Baden-Wuerttembergs" (Manfred Pelz); "Aspects of English-language Learning in the Elementary School: On the Concretization of a New Teaching Profession" (Hartmut Breitkreuz); "Early Foreign Language Learning in Sachsen. Goal-setting and Realization in English-Language Instruction" (Ursula Karbe); and "Concepts for French-Language Instruction in the Elementary School" (Roland Gassler). (NAV)