Modern Languages

Standard 1: Interpretive Communication

Standard 2: Interpersonal Communication

Standard 3: Presentational Communication

Standard 4: Relating Cultural Practices and Products to Perspectives 

Standard 5: Cultural Comparisons

Interpretive Listening: Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard or viewed on a variety of topics, using a range of diverse texts, including authentic resources.

Interpretive Reading: Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is read or viewed on a variety of topics, using a range of diverse texts, including authentic resources.

Interpersonal Writing: Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spontaneous written communication to exchange information and express feelings, preferences, and opinions.

Interpersonal Speaking: Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spontaneous spoken communication to exchange information and express feelings, preferences, and opinions.

Presentational Writing: Learners present information and ideas on a variety of topics adapted to various audiences of readers or viewers to describe, inform, narrate, explain, or persuade.

Presentational Speaking: Learners present information and ideas on a variety of topics adapted to various audiences of listeners or viewers to describe, inform, narrate, explain, or persuade.

Learners use the target language to identify, describe, and explain the practices of the cultures studied as well as the cultural perspectives they suggest. 

Learners use the target language to identify, describe, and explain the products of the cultures studied as well as the cultural perspectives they suggest. 

Learners use the target language to compare the practices of the cultures studied and their own.

Learners use the target language to compare the products of the cultures studied and their own.