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Standard:
Acquire, exchange, and present information in the target language on factual topics of public interest and general 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.

Standard:
Research and explain diverse perspectives and distinctive viewpoints on topics of general public interest in the target language through authentic materials from the target cultures.

Goal:
To function in real-world situations in academic and career-related settings, students access and evaluate information and diverse perspectives that are readily or only available through the language and its cultures.

Standard:
Research, analyze, discuss, and hypothesize in the target language about diverse perspectives and distinctive viewpoints on topics ranging from broad general interests to unfamiliar, abstract, and hypothetical areas of specialized, professional, and academic expertise language through authentic materials from the target cultures.

Goal:
To function in real-world situations in academic and career-related settings, students access and evaluate information and diverse perspectives that are readily or only available through the language and its cultures.

Standard:
Research, analyze, discuss, and hypothesize in the target language about topics ranging from broad general interests to unfamiliar, abstract, and hypothetical areas of specialized professional and academic expertise 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.

Standard:
Research, analyze, discuss, and hypothesize about the products, practices, and perspectives of the target cultures—comparing concrete and abstract, general and specialized, and academic and professional topics with the mainstream cultures of the United States, and the students’ own 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.

Standard:
Deliver complex presentations with precision of expression in culturally appropriate ways, for a wide variety of audiences, 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 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.