Search the California Content Standards

Standard:
Identify similarities and differences in the orthography, phonology, ASL parameters, and very basic sentence-level elements (morphology and/or syntax) 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:
Use age-appropriate gestures and expressions in very familiar, common daily settings.

Goal:
Students interact with cultural competence and understanding.

Standard:
Experience, recognize, and explore the relationships among typical age-appropriate target cultures’ products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways in very familiar common daily 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:
Identify some similarities and differences among very familiar, common daily products, practices, and perspectives 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:
Acquire, exchange, and present information primarily in the target language about very familiar common daily elements of life and age-appropriate 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:
Recognize diverse perspectives and distinctive viewpoints on very familiar common daily topics, primarily in the target language, from age-appropriate 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:
Identify diverse perspectives and distinctive viewpoints on topics related to self and the immediate environment in the target language from age-appropriate 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:
Acquire, exchange, and present information in the target language on topics related to self and the immediate environment, and age-appropriate 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:
Exchange information about similarities and differences among common daily products, practices, and perspectives in the immediate environment 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:
Experience, recognize, and explore the relationships among typical age-appropriate target cultures’ products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways in transactional situations and some informal 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.