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Standard:
Describe and explain similarities and differences among products, practices, and perspectives of general public interest 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.

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 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:
Improvise in culturally appropriate ways in unfamiliar and unpredictable situations, in informal and formal settings, and in specialized academic and professional contexts.

Goal:
Students interact with cultural competence and understanding.

Standard:
Communicate about topics ranging from broad general interests to unfamiliar, abstract, and hypothetical areas of specialized professional and academic expertise. Use knowledge of sentence-level elements (morphology and syntax of common and uncommon structures) and extended discourse (text structure).

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).