K-2
Students understand that:
- proficiency in a foreign language is a vehicle to gaining knowledge that can only be acquired through that language and its culture.
- world language learning offers opportunities to uncover big ideas in and about other disciplines.
- strategies used to acquire a language are transferable to other areas of learning throughout life.
- a second language facilitates the acquisition of information about the world outside our experiences.
3-5
Students understand that:
- proficiency in a foreign language is a vehicle to gaining knowledge that can only be acquired through that language and its culture.
- world language learning offers opportunities to uncover big ideas in and about other disciplines.
- strategies used to acquire a language are transferable to other areas of learning throughout life.
- a second language facilitates the acquisition of information about the world outside our experiences.
6-8
Students understand that:
- proficiency in a foreign language is a vehicle to gaining knowledge that can only be acquired through that language and its culture.
- world language learning offers opportunities to uncover big ideas in and about other disciplines.
- strategies used to acquire a language are transferable to other areas of learning throughout life.
- a second language facilitates the acquisition of information about the world outside our experiences.
