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Demonstrate understanding of the main idea and supporting details in major time frames on most informal and formal topics of general public interest. Demonstrate understanding of authentic texts using paragraph-level discourse that are spoken, written, or signed.

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Students demonstrate understanding, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics, from authentic texts. They use technology, when appropriate, to access information.

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Interact with cultural competence in most informal and formal settings.

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Students interact with cultural competence and understanding.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Describe how products, practices, and perspectives change when cultures come into contact.

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To interact with intercultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate how cultures influence each other over time.

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Research, analyze, discuss, and hypothesize about a wide range of products, practices, and perspectives—including concrete and abstract, general and specialized, and academic and professional—and how they change when cultures come into contact.

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To interact with intercultural competence, students demonstrate understanding and use the target language to investigate how cultures influence each other over time.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Students interact with cultural competence and understanding.

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Demonstrate understanding and infer meaning from complex, authentic, multi-paragraph texts on topics of broad general interests. Demonstrate understanding of unfamiliar, abstract, and hypothetical areas of specialized professional and academic expertise, in texts that are spoken, written, or signed.

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Students demonstrate understanding, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics, from authentic texts. They use technology, when appropriate, to access information.