New Colorado P-12 Academic Standards

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations) - (Remove PGC Filter)

• Acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Evaluate information and viewpoints present in authentic resources

Inquiry Questions:

1. How does an understanding of another language and culture broaden people's ability to access information and to appreciate a variety of distinctive viewpoints?
2. How can people determine perspective in authentic sources?
3. How do cultural aspects shape perspectives in that culture?

Relevance & Application:

1. Connections with other cultures develop a global outlook.
2. Authentic food can be vastly different than a commercial approach.
3. Bona fide Asian poetry has a historical and authentic reference to stories unlike modern imitations.

Nature Of:

1. Language learning provides skills and helps develop interests beyond the limits of a person's formal education.
2. Extending student access to information through the use of the target language increases student abilities to know and do.

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations) - (Remove PGC Filter)

• Acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Examine information and viewpoints present in authentic resources

Inquiry Questions:

1. How does an understanding of another language and culture broaden people's ability to access information and to appreciate a variety of distinctive viewpoints?
2. What is the value of an authentic source?
3. What is the impact of point of view?

Relevance & Application:

1. Connecting with other languages contributes to a mutual understanding and a sense of global citizenship.
2. The Internet allows people to access a variety of authentic resources that express varying viewpoints.

Nature Of:

1. Learning another language adds unique experiences and insights.

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations) - (Remove PGC Filter)

• Acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Relate information acquired from authentic resources to individual perspectives and experiences

Inquiry Questions:

1. How does an understanding of another language and culture broaden people's ability to access information and to appreciate a variety of distinctive viewpoints?
2. What is the importance of comparing experiences with those of a native speaker?
3. What can people do to connect with a native speaker?

Relevance & Application:

1. Movies and documentaries put in context the perspective of a target language.
2. Learning languages contributes to personal fulfillment.
3. Knowing presentational skills and examples of oratory in a target language improves communication.

Nature Of:

1. Language learners are able to extract increasingly detailed information from authentic resources.

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations) - (Remove PGC Filter)

• Acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Organize information acquired from authentic resources

Inquiry Questions:

1. How does an understanding of another language and culture broaden people's ability to access information and to appreciate a variety of distinctive viewpoints?
2. How can a student rely on previous understandings and experiences to evaluate and interpret new information?
3. What are ways to organize information?

Relevance & Application:

1. Language learning enhances brain development.
2. Language learners build greater awareness of world cultures through use of the Internet.

Nature Of:

1. Language learners develop the ability to extract basic information from authentic resources.

Prepared Graduates: (Click on a Prepared Graduate Competency to View Articulated Expectations) - (Remove PGC Filter)

• Acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Use authentic resources to locate basic information

Inquiry Questions:

1. How does an understanding of another language and culture broaden people's ability to access information and to appreciate a variety of distinctive viewpoints?
2. Where can people find a target language outside of the classroom?
3. Why is using background knowledge important?

Relevance & Application:

1. International examples of search engines both enlarge one's perspectives but also permit one to better access a target language. Studying another language will promote increased cultural awareness.

Nature Of:

1. Language learners realize that there are other languages and cultures different from their own.