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INTRODUCTION
St. Philomena School Model
Content Standards for Foreign Language
This document puts forth a vision
of excellence for grades 6-8 foreign language
education. Foreign Language acquisition consists
of building strong communication skills and
cultural knowledge.
These Standards for Foreign Language
are designed to provide guidelines for foreign
language in grades 7-8. Foreign Language literacy
enable students to:
- Connect with other disciplines such as
language arts, math, science, geography,
and the fine arts;
- Acquire information and recognize viewpoints
available only through the foreign language
and its cultures; and
- Understand the nature of language, both
foreign and native.
Students studying foreign languages
will have the opportunity to become linguistically
and culturally prepared to interact successfully
as citizens of our community, state, nation,
and world.
Model Content Standards
Foreign Language
1. Students communicate in a foreign
language while demonstrating literacy in all
four essential skills; listening, speaking,
reading, and writing.
2. Students acquire and use knowledge
of other cultures while developing foreign language
skills.
STANDARD
1:
Students communicate in a foreign language
while demonstrating literacy in all four essential
skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
1.1 Listening - Students listen to and derive
meaning from a variety of foreign language sources.
Seventh grade students will be:
- Partially proficient - To a limited extend
students demonstrate comprehension of common
memorized words, expressions, cognates and
everyday conversations (including familiar
situations and simple instructions), when
hearing the language spoken from a variety
of sources.
Eighth grade students will be:
- Proficient - Most of the time students demonstrate
comprehension of common memorized words, expressions,
cognates and everyday conversations (including
familiar situations and simple instructions),
when hearing the language spoken from a variety
of sources.
1.2 Speaking - Students speak in the foreign
language for a variety of purposes and for diverse
audiences.
Seventh grade students will be:
- Partially proficient - To a limited extent
students use learned pronunciation and intonation
patterns and learned vocabulary and phrases
while speaking in predictable, familiar situations
to express personal opinions and desires,
to describe everyday topics, and to ask and
answer simple questions, with appropriate
vocabulary and grammatical structures.
Eighth grade students will be:
- Proficient - Most of the time students
use learned pronunciation and intonation patterns
and learned vocabulary and phrases while speaking
in predictable, familiar situations to express
personal opinions and desires, to describe
everyday topics, and to ask and answer simple
questions, with appropriate vocabulary and
grammatical structures.
1.3 Reading - Students read and derive meaning
from a variety of materials written in a foreign
language.
Seventh grade students will be:
- Partially proficient - To a limited extent
students recognize cognates and common expressions,
infer meaning to unfamiliar words from context,
show comprehension of reading materials, and
identify cultural elements.
Eighth grade students will be:
- Proficient - Most of the time students recognize
cognates and common expressions, infer meaning
to unfamiliar words from context, show comprehension
of reading materials, and identify cultural
elements.
1.4 Writing - Students write in a foreign
language for a variety of purposes and for diverse
audiences.
Seventh grade students will be:
- Partially proficient - To a limited extent
students use legible handwriting and/or word
processing, appropriate grammar, spelling,
capitalization, and punctuation, to write
about everyday topics and express personal
opinions and desires, using learned vocabulary
phrases and grammatical structures, and obtain
and report information for a variety of audiences.
Eighth grade students will be:
- Proficient - Most of the time students
use legible handwriting and/or word processing,
appropriate grammar, spelling, capitalization,
and punctuation, with proofreading and rewriting,
to write about everyday topics and express
personal opinions and desires, using learned
vocabulary phrases and grammatical structures,
and obtain and report information for a variety
of audiences.
STANDARD
2:
Students acquire and use knowledge of cultures
while developing foreign language skills.
Seventh grade students will be:
- Partially proficient - To a limited extent
students observe and identify everyday cultural
practices, use culturally appropriate gestures
and oral expressions for common or familiar
classroom interactions, and listen to or read
materials from the cultures being studied.
Eighth grade students will be:
- Proficient - Most of the time students
observe and identify everyday cultural practices,
use culturally appropriate gestures and oral
expressions for common or familiar classroom
interactions, and listen to or read materials
from the cultures being studied.
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