This web page summarizes the initial World Language Standards review August 11, 2005 with Katy Armagost, Sue Webber, and Michele Anciaux Aoki.

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Washington State

To provide a context for work that has been done in recent years.

• Competency Based Admission Standards (1999)
  (Draft from Admission Standards Action Committee)
• EALRs for World Language (Michele 1999-2000)
• WAFLT/OSPI White Paper on World Languages
• WAFLT Proposal to GRAD Committee (2000)
• World Languages Meeting 6/15/2005 (with John Keeler)
• World Language Survey (see WL Survey)

National Standards

• National Standards for Foreign Language Education
  (ACTFL) (Copy of the book)

Implementation

• Bringing the Standards into the Classroom (or PDF)
  National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center
   
• State Standards: Connecting a National Vision to Local Implementation (PDF) by Paul Sandrock, ACTFL
   
• World Language Standards course
  (with International Education Summit 2003)
  Mimi Met's presentations at Summit:
  • Developing Curriculum (PDF)
  • Novice Learner Range (PDF)
  • Some Thoughts on Teaching Culture (PDF)
  • When Should Language Learning Begin? (PDF)

State Frameworks

• California: Foreign Language Frameworks (Have Draft copy), see:
  http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/documents/
  foreign-language.pdf
   
• Massachusetts Foreign Language Curriculum Framework
   
• Nebraska K-12 Foreign Language Frameworks (PDF) Book
   
• New Jersey World Languages Curriculum Framework
   
• Oregon Standards Newspaper: Second Languages
  (Have hard copy of Newspaper from 2002-2003)
   
• Survey of State Standards: April 19, 2000
  (for John Stanford International School) - needs updating
  • Colorado
    www.cde.state.co.us/index_stnd.htm
    (select PDF file for Foreign Languages)
  • Connecticut (new link)
    http://www.state.ct.us/sde/dtl/curriculum/frwlang.pdf
  • Delaware
    www.doe.state.de.us/Standards/
    Foreign_Language/toc.htm
  • Florida
    www.firn.edu/doe/curric/prek12/frame2.htm
    (select Foreign Language)
  • Maine (broken link now)
  • Vermont (broken link now)
  • Virginia
    www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/tocontents.html
    (select Foreign Language)

Assessment & Proficiency

• ACTFL Performance & Proficiency Guidelines (Hard copy), see:
  http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3327
   
• National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) for Foreign Language
  (Project coordinated by CAL for the National Assessment Governing Board in 1999-2000; includes specs for the assessment based on the National Standards)
   
• Oregon Japanese Language Proficiency Package
  (Hard copy from 1997), but see oral & literacy benchmarks:
  http://casls.uoregon.edu/genericljapaneseiteracy.php
  http://casls.uoregon.edu/japaneseoralbench.php

Program Standards (Guidelines)

• Dual Language Education of New Mexico
  http://duallanguagenm.org/101.html

Resource Centers

• Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS)
  on the University of Oregon campus.

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