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Standard:
Identify similarities and differences in sentence-level elements (morphology and syntax of common and uncommon structures) and in extended discourse (text structure) of the languages known.

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

Standard:
Sustain opportunities to use culturally authentic, real-world, and academic language on topics ranging from broad general interests to unfamiliar, abstract, and hypothetical areas of specialized professional and academic expertise 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.

Standard:
Participate fully and effectively in real-world, spoken, written, or signed discussions and debates, on topics ranging from broad general interests to unfamiliar, abstract, and hypothetical areas of specialized professional and academic expertise. Use a wide variety of text types with cohesive discourse in informal and formal settings, and problem situations.

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 and infer meaning from complex, authentic, multi-paragraph texts on topics of broad general interests. Demonstrate understanding of unfamiliar, abstract, and hypothetical areas of specialized professional and academic expertise, in 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.