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Standard:
Acquire, exchange, and present information in the target language on topics related to self and the immediate environment, and age-appropriate academic content across disciplines.

Goal:
To function in real-world situations, academic, and career-related settings, students build, reinforce, and expand their knowledge of other disciplines using the target language to develop critical thinking and solve problems.

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State reasons for cultural borrowings.

Goal:
To interact with intercultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate how cultures influence each other over time.

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Exchange information about similarities and differences among common daily products, practices, and perspectives in the immediate environment in the mainstream cultures of the United States, the students’ own cultures, and the target cultures.

Goal:
To interact with cultural competence, students use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the nature of culture through comparisons of similarities and differences in the target cultures and the culture(s) they know.

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Experience, recognize, and explore the relationships among typical age-appropriate target cultures’ products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways in transactional situations and some informal settings.

Goal:
To interact with cultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationships among the products cultures produce, the practices cultures manifest, and the perspectives that underlie them.

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Interact with understanding in a variety of familiar age-appropriate transactional situations and common daily and informal settings.

Goal:
Students interact with cultural competence and understanding.

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Demonstrate understanding of transactional and informal topics related to self and the immediate environment. Use basic sentence-level elements (morphology and syntax).

Goal:
Students use the following structures to communicate: sounds, parameters, and writing systems (Novice); basic word and sentence formation (Intermediate); structures for major time frames and text structures for paragraph-level discourse (Advanced); all structures and text structures for extended discourse (Superior). Students use the following language text types to communicate: learned words, signs and fingerspelling, and phrases (Novice); sentences and strings of sentences (Intermediate); paragraphs and strings of paragraphs (Advanced); or coherent, cohesive multi-paragraph texts (Superior).

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Recognize opportunities to use age-appropriate, culturally authentic, real-world, and academic language in highly predictable common daily settings within target-language communities in the United States and around the world.

Goal:
Students use language in highly predictable daily settings (Novice); transactional and some informal settings (Intermediate); most informal and formal settings (Advanced); informal, formal, and professional settings, and unfamiliar and problem situations (Superior) in their communities and in the globalized world. Students recognize (Novice), participate in (Intermediate), initiate (Advanced), or sustain (Superior) language use opportunities outside the classroom and set goals while reflecting on progress, and use language for enjoyment, enrichment, and advancement.

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Make simple presentations in culturally appropriate ways on transactional and informal topics related to self and the immediate environment. Use sentences and strings of sentences through spoken, written, or signed language using the most suitable media and technologies to present and publish.

Goal:
Students present information, concepts, and ideas on a variety of topics and for multiple purposes, in culturally appropriate ways. They adapt to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers, using the most suitable media and technologies to present and publish.

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Participate in real-world, spoken, written, or signed conversations related to self and the immediate environment. Create sentences and strings of sentences to ask and answer a variety of questions in transactional and some informal settings.

Goal:
Students interact and negotiate meaning in a variety of real-world settings and for multiple purposes, in spoken, signed, or written conversations. They use technology as appropriate, in order to collaborate, to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.

Standard:
Demonstrate understanding of the main idea and some details on some informal topics related to self and the immediate environment. Demonstrate understanding of sentences and strings of sentences in authentic texts that are spoken, written, or signed.

Goal:
Students demonstrate understanding, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics, from authentic texts. They use technology, when appropriate, to access information.