Standards for Foreign Language Learning

Goal 1: Communication - Students communicate in languages other than English

Standard 1.1 Interpersonal Mode: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.

Standard 1.2 Interpretive Mode: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.

Standard 1.3 Presentational Mode: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listenenrs or readers on a variety of topics.

Goal 2: Culture - Students gain knowledge and understanding of other cultures.

Standard 2.1 Perspectives and Practices: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the prespectives and practices of the cultures studied.

Standard 2.2 Perspectives and Products: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the perspectives and products of the cultures studied.

Goal 3: Connections - Students connect with other disciplines and acquire new knowledge

Standard 3.1 Knowledge: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language.

Standard 3.2 Point of view: Students acquire information and recognize viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.

Goal 4: Comparisons - Students develop insight into own language and culture

Standard 4.1 Linguistic Comparisons: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own.

Standard 4.2 Cultural Comparisons: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through compaisons of the cultures studied and their own.

Goal 5: Communities - Students participate in multilingual communities at home and around the world

Standard 5.1 Use of Language: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.

Standard 5.2 Enjoyment and Life-Long Learning: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.


National Standards in Foreign Language Education
A Special Project of ACTFL

See complete Kansas Standards of Foreign Language Education on the KSDE site.

 


last updated on August 19, 2007

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