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Standard:
Participate, use, describe, and discuss the relationships among target cultures’ products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways in most informal and formal 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.

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, 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 relationships among target cultures’ wide ranges of products, practices, and perspectives—concrete and abstract, general and specialized, and academic and professional—from different viewpoints in culturally appropriate ways.

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.

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.