World Languages

World Languages

World Languages Standards

• Communication

• Cultures

• Connections

• Comparisons

• Communities

Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products, practices and perspectives of the

culture studied and make comparisons with their own culture.

World Languages

• The role of language across the programme continuum is crucial in nurturing the full development of each learner and fostering the values of diversity, international-mindedness and intercultural awareness.

Towards a Continuum of International Education p. 27

World Languages

• Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.

- ACTFL National Standards

• What information or viewpoints are only available to people who speak the language?

Haiku

Wild thistle blossoms

seen even by the eyes of

the garden-less poor.

What is Haiku?• Form: 5 – 7 – 5 • Topic: Nature• Feeling: evokes tranquility, compassion• Contrast• Kigo: a word that indicates the season• Engo: associated words rising from the same

concept, similar to our similes and metaphors• Kake kotoba: a pivot word employed in two

senses, even three on rare occasions. "The pivot word shades into the pun, and some Japanese poems have so many puns that they may have two or more quite dissimilar meanings.” - Rexroth

Intercultural literacy requires a so-called ‘crisis of engagement’ – an

authentic cross-cultural experience

- Mark Heyward (2002)

An out-of-countryBathroom Experience

How to use a squat toilethttp://www.richardbarrow.com/thai-culture/how-to-use-a-squat-toilet-2.html

India – pay per use public toilet by chefcookie on Flickr

San Jose, Costa Rica

Guatemala

Aqaba Bejing, China dorm room

France by xiaozhuli

Understand that people, with their differences, can also be right

Or

Help to create a better and more peaceful world