1. Students will converse, provide and obtain information, express feelings, emotions, and ideas, and exchange opinions in the language studied.

2. Students will understand and interpret writing and speech on a variety of topics in the language studied.

3. Students will present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics in the language studied.

4. Students will demonstrate an understanding of and appreciation for the practices, products and perspectives of the cultures studied and the relationship between them.

5. Students will use the foreign language to reinforce and endorse their knowledge of other disciplines.

6. Students will understand the elements of language and culture studied that can only be comprehended in the original.

7. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their mother tongue and/or English.

8. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own culture.

*CBE-SEE: Council for Basic Education - Standards for Excellence in Education

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