Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics. Connections Connect with Other Disciplines and Acquire Information. Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language. Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures. Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.
National standards familiarization workshop . Presented at the annual meeting of the Northeast conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York. Standards can make a difference . Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Coun-cil on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. United States Dept. of Education.