language learning
Reading to find collaborative opportunities: Title VI Centers and World Language associations
Standards for Foreign Language Learning [accessed 1/25/2007 at www.actfl.org/files/public/execsumm.pdf]
::::: Communication - Communicate in Languages Other Than English
Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.
>> genre exposure (what content found in each context/source)
Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
>> linguistic fluency, social proficiency, cultural literacy
::::: Cultures - Gain Knowledge and Understanding of Other Cultures
Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied.
>> part: part (gather illustrative instances)
Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
>> products: WHAT (familiarize with items), HOW TO (uses), WHY you'd want to do so
>> perspectives: worldview, distinctions, categories, reference points and pool of prominent precedents or ideals
::::: Connections - Connect with Other Disciplines and Acquire Information
Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language.
>> literatures (film repetoire; web multimedia productions) and social studies (economics, politics/civics, geography, histories)
Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.
>> history points-of-view, museum representations (cultural politics), ethnopoetics (desireable, persuasive characteristics)
::::: Comparisons - Develop Insight into the Nature of Language and Culture
Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own.
>> foreign language learning lore, reflection on own language properties; topics of translation limits, attitudes toward the natural envrionment
Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
>> foreign culture learning lore, reflection on own society/language properties; topics nation-states, social patterns
::::: Communities - Participate in Multilingual Communities at Home & Around the World
Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.
>> role models, including celebrity or popular/commercial culture illustrations
Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.
>> WEB: flickr pool (including QTVR, panoramas), (video) podcast & (world) news media, narrated slideshows, webcam & web radio stations
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, http://www.actfl.org/
American Association of Teachers of French, http://www.frenchteachers.org/
American Association of Teachers of German, http://www.frenchteachers.org/
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, http://www.aatsp.org/
Association for Teachers of Japanese, http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/
created 25 January 2007 . . . last updated on 25 January 2007