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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:
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 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:
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).