World Language Learning Center
World Language Criteria and Target Skills
The teachers at Moanalua High School have been working with the benchmarks and other criteria for a number of years now. The following are criteria and rubrics that they have found to be helpful in assessing student progress, growth, and achievement. Please test them out and send us feedbak on how you have used them, what needs changing, etc.
A sample of level 2 rubrics can be found on this website: http://mohsjapanese2.wix.com/japanese2#!rubrics/cdw5
World Language Standards and Benchmarks
Interpersonal: Use target langauge to engane in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
Interpretive: Understand and interpret written and spoken language on diverse topics from diverse media.
Presentational: Present information, concepts and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
Cultures: Understand the relationships among perspectives, products and practices of the target culture.
Comparisons: Understand that different languages use different patterns to communicate and apply this knowledge to the target and native languages.
Ask and answer social questions to get information or to maintain a conversation.
Ask and answer transactional questions to provide and obtain goods, services or information.
WL.IS.Y1.1.1:
WL.IS.Y1.1.2:
WL.IS.Y1.1.3:
Exchange opinions and feelings about familiar experiences and events.
Identify the main ideas and significant details of oral and written materials with visual cues.
WL.IS.Y1.2.2:
Identify the main ideas and significant details of oral and written materials with visual cues.
WL.IS.Y1.2.1:
Prepare written communication on a given theme.
WL.IS.Y1.3.2:
Use oral language skills to make simple presentations.
WL.IS.Y1.3.1:
Give examples of how significant cultural ideas are reflected in the practices and products of the culture being studied.
WL.IS.Y1.4.2:
Identify tangible and intangible products and practices of the target culture and compare them to other cultures.
WL.IS.Y1.4.1:
Compare basic grammatical and linguistic structures of target language with own language.
WL.IS.Y1.5.2:
Apply tenses appropriately to express actions and state of being in the present.
WL.IS.Y1.5.1:
Explain cultural phrases and idiomatic expressions related to familiar topics.
WL.IS.Y1.5.3:
Provide details to elaborate on familiar topics and ask clarifying questions.
WL.IS.Y2.1.2:
Ask and answer questions to get information and clarify something that has been not clearly understood.
WL.IS.Y2.1.1:
Identify the main idea and significant details or oral or written material with limited visual cues.
WL.IS.Y2.2.1:
Write about a familiar event, experience, or topic.
WL.IS.Y2.3.2:
Use oral language skills to present a narrative, descriptive, or factual report relating to personal or familiar experiences and events.
WL.IS.Y2.3.1:
Use appropriate language and gestures to interact in a wide range of social contexts.
WL.IS.Y2.4.2:
Describe the impact of own culture and target culture on each other.
WL.IS.Y2.4.1:
Describe similarities and differences in structural patterns of the language being learned and other languages.
WL.IS.Y2.5.1:
Use appropriate vocabulary to exchange opinions and personal perspectives.
WL.IS.Y3.1.1:
Describe the main ideas and significant details of a variety of oral and written materials.
WL.IS.Y3.2.1:
Recall information from announcements and messages intended for a wide audience.
WL.IS.Y3.2.2:
Write paraphrases, summaries and descriptions.
WL.IS.Y3.3.2:
Recall information from announcements and messages intended for a wide audience.
WL.IS.Y3.3.1:
Write creative and informative texts.
WL.IS.Y3.3.3:
Explain patterns of behavior and expressive products (art, literature, music, etc.) typical of the target culture.
WL.IS.Y3.4.2:
Analyze the expressive products (art, literature, music, etc.) of the culture being studied through comparison to native culture.
WL.IS.Y3.4.1:
Use past and future tenses correctly when speaking and writing for a variety of purposes.
WL.IS.Y3.5.1:
Use strategies appropriate to speaking for various purposes.
WL.IS.Y4.3.1:
Identify significant ideas and details in materials by making inferences or predictions supported by evidence in the text.
WL.IS.Y4.2.1:
Use appropriate vocabulary to exchange ideas about current or past events that are of significance to the culture being studied.
WL.IS.Y4.1.1:
Use strategies appropriate to writing for various purposes.
WL.IS.Y4.3.2:
Explain themes, ideas, and perspectives related to products and practices of the target culture.
WL.IS.Y4.4.2:
Analyze the history, politics, and art of the culture being studied by making comparisons to native culture.
WL.IS.Y4.4.1:
Use various structural patterns in narration and description.
WL.IS.Y4.5.1:
Assess main ideas and most supporting details of broadcast or published materials on a wide variety of subjects.
WL.IS.Y5.2.1:
Exchange ideas about issues or problems and their possible solutions.
WL.IS.Y5.1.1:
Use interpretation, persuasion, or critical analysis to make an oral presentation.
WL.IS.Y5.3.1:
Write for personal purposes in varied situations and contexts.
WL.IS.Y5.3.2:
Analyze connections among products, practices, and perspectives of the target culture.
WL.IS.Y5.4.2:
Investigate how basic cultural ideas affect behavior and language through comparison of culture being studied and native culture.
WL.IS.Y5.4.1:
Assess the impact on communication of words and phrases that do not translate directly from one language to another.
WL.IS.Y5.5.1:
World Language Essential Skills
ES.VR.1.W:
Recognize spelling and meaning of introduced vocabulary within the introduced orthography.
Accurately applies commonly accepted Romanization system to represent sounds in non-Arabic writing systems.
ES.OP.JR:
Accurately produce characters in Hiragana Syllabaries.
ES.OP.J1:
Recognize spelling and able to decode sound of introduced orthography.
ES.OR.1.W:
Aurally interpret meaning and function of introduced vocabulary with authentic pronunciation and phrasing.
Accurately produce characters in Katakana Syllabaries.
ES.OP.J2:
ES.OP.J3:
Accurately produce character Blends in Hiragana Syllabaries.
Accurately produce character Blends in Katakana Syllabaries.
ES.OP.J4:
ES.OP.J5:
Accurately produce Kanji characters.
Accurately produce Chinese characters.
ES.OP.C1:
ES.VR.1.O:
ES.VP.1.W:
Accurately produce introduced vocabulary using the introduced authentic orthography.
ES.VP.1.O:
Accurately produce target language sounds, words, and phrases orally.
Accurately applies target language words and set phrases in written form in appropriate context.
ES.VA.1.W:
ES.OR.1.O:
Recognizes and is able to decode sounds of introduced vocabulary and set phrases.
ES.VA.1.O:
Accurately applies target language words and set phrases orally in appropriate context.
ES.GR.1.W:
ES.GR.1.O:
ES.GP.1.W:
ES.GP.1.O:
ES.GA.1.W:
ES.GA.1.O:
Recognize/interpret appropriate forms, tenses, order, patterns and structures presented orally with authentic pronunciation.
Recognize/interpret appropriate forms, tenses, order, patterns and structures presented in the introduced orthography..
Accurately produces introduced grammatical structures, forms, tenses, patterns and order to effectively communicate in writing.
Accurately produces introduced grammatical structures, forms, tenses, patterns and order to effectively communicate orally.
Use appropriate grammatical structures and conventions in writing.
Use appropriate grammatical structures and conventions when speaking.
