[National
Standards for Foreign Language Learning]
[NYS
ESL Learning Standards]
National
Standards for Foreign Language Learning
COMMUNICATION
Communicate in Language Other Than English
Standard
1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information,
express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
Standard
1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language
on a variety of topics.
Standard
1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience
of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
CULTURES
Gain Knowledge and Understanding of Other Cultures
Standard
2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between
the practices and perspectives of the culture studied.
Standard
2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between
the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
CNNECTIONS
Connect with Other Disciplines and Acquire Information
Standard
3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines
through the foreign language.
Standard
3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive
viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language
and its cultures.
COMPARISONS
Develop Insight into the Nature of Language and Culture
Standard
4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language
through comparisons of the language studied and their own.
Standard
4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture
through comparisons of the culture studied and their own.
COMMUNITIES
Participate in Multilingual Communities at Home and Around the World
Standard
5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school
setting.
Standard
5.2: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using
the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.
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NYS
ESL Learning Standards
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English
Proficiency Levels:
Beginning (1 to 13%)
Intermediate (10 to 23%)
Advanced (20 to 33%)
Transitional (30 to 40%)
English
for Information and Understanding
Standard
1.1: Listen, speak, read, and write simple mastered vocabulary,
sentences, identify and categorize, compose short informal notes
based upon personal experience, express basic personal needs, engage
in simple face-to-face conversations, can understand short informative
messages. Can guess meaning from use of cognates and context.
Standard
1.2: Need opportunity for organization and advance preparation,
can understand simple narrative and descriptive materials and edited
texts. Can write simple note, uncomplicated personal and business
letter, brief journal entries, and short reports with simple vocabulary
and common language structures.
Standard
1.3: Comprehend most age-level written materials, and with support,
academic content materials. Are able to use linguistic context and
prior knowledge to increase comprehension. Can understand most factual
information in non-technical rose. Can express complex ideas sequentially
with simple language and draw of a broad Range of learned vocabulary,
idioms, and structures, including the full range of time frames.
Standard
1.4: Apply linguistic skills and knowledge, including vocabulary,
idioms, and complex grammatical structures. Mastered reading strategies
of grade-level native speakers and are approaching mastery of grade-level
mastery of language structures and vocabulary of age-level texts.
Understand and identify the main ideas and relevant details of extended
discussions or presentations on a wide range of familiar and unfamiliar
topics in a number of modalities.
English
for Literary Response, Enjoyment, and Expression
Standard 2.1: Listen, speak, read, and write simple words, sentences,
and recognize genre and literary elements, comprehend main ideas
of simple informative materials. Understanding limited to simple
language structures and syntax.
Standard
2.2: Follow essential points and some details of expository writing
when dealing with areas of special interest, and begin to separate
main ideas from supporting g details. Able to make informed guesses
about meaning form context.
Standard
2.3: Read excerpts from literature for pleasure. Can detect the
overall tone and intent to the text. Can write multi-paragraphed
essays, journals, personal and business letters, and creative texts
in which the thoughts are unified and presented in an organized
fashion.
Standard
2.4: Comprehend a wide rage of texts. Approaching fluency in writing
in the content areas with language structures and technical vocabulary
with some circumlocutions. Begin to use alternative and nuanced
meanings of words in their written communications.
English
for Critical Analysis and Evaluation
Standard 3.1: Understand the main idea to simple messages and conversations.
Relies on visual cues and some prior knowledge or experience. May
have to read the material several times to fully capture meaning.
Standard
3.2: write brief and informed analyses of more complex content,
including academic content, can produce written expressions of opinions
and reactions to information from a variety of media. Can express
present, future, and past ideas comprehensively.
Standard
3.3: Separate main ideas from supporting ones as begin to analyze
materials. Errors may still occur, particularly when the students
are writing about complex themes or required to express and opinion
when topic is outside their realm of experience or when the content
is rich in technical academic vocabulary.
Standard
3.4: Demonstrate an increasing ability to successfully employ the
subtleties of written language for different audiences. Use paralinguistic
features of the language such as stress, intonation, pace, and rhythm
to understand spoken language.
English
for Social and Classroom Interaction
Standard 4.1: Comprehend simple statements and questions, express
basic person l needs and compose short informal notes on familiar
topics. Can engage in simple, face-to-face conversations. Uses repetition
and circumlocution.
Standard
4.2: Initiate and sustain short conversations on simple topics in
everyday situations on the phone or in person. Use repetition as
well as gestures and other nonverbal cures to sustain conversation.
Standard
4.3: Understand standard speech in most settings with some repetition
& rewording. Can handle most communicative situations with confidence,
may need help with complicated language production, especially in
academic subjects. Can engage in extended discussions with fluent
speakers on a wide-range of topics.
Standard
4.1: Engage in most social communicative situations with confidence
and have mastered complex language structures. Understand most standard
speech delivered in authentic settings by a fluent English speaker.
Understand and identify the main ideas and relevant details of extended
discussions or presentations on a wide range of familiar and unfamiliar
topics in a number of modalities.
English
for Cross-cultural Knowledge and understanding
Standard 5.1: Understand simple material for informative or social
purposes. Understanding is limited to simple language containing
mostly high frequency words and familiar sentence patterns.
Standard
5.2: Sustain comprehension through contextual inferences in short
communications on familiar topics and, in the academic content areas,
by paraphrasing, slower speaking pace, and visual supports.
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