NAC389.5695. Foreign language: Second year.

A course in a foreign language offered as an elective course in a public high school as a second-year foreign language course must, in addition to the requirements set forth in NAC 389.569, include instruction designed to teach the pupil by the completion of the second year of high school study to:

     1. Engage in conversations, provide information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions in the foreign language by:

     (a) Asking and responding to a variety of questions concerning activities of daily life.

     (b) Giving and following oral or written directions, instructions and commands.

     (c) Using various verbs and phrases to discuss and write about past and future events.

     (d) Participating in conversations on various topics by expressing opinions and emotions.

     (e) Making requests for goods and services in public places.

     (f) Telling or writing effectively a narrative about a personal experience or event.

     (g) Restating an event or an account of an event in various tenses.

     (h) Applying standard rules of usage and grammar.

     (i) Speaking in a manner that is comprehensible to speakers of the foreign language.

     (j) Demonstrating creativity in the production of language.

     2. Understand and interpret written and spoken material in the foreign language on various topics by:

     (a) Reading selected materials with a certain degree of fluency, accuracy, intonation and expression.

     (b) Using background knowledge to comprehend narratives, personal correspondence and other contextualized print.

     (c) Paraphrasing or expressing main ideas of written and spoken material.

     3. Present information, concepts and ideas in the foreign language to an audience by:

     (a) Creating and presenting stories or brief written reports on various topics.

     (b) Reciting selected forms of literature or singing songs.

     (c) Engaging in debate on various topics.

     4. Understand the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied by:

     (a) Explaining the value systems and routines of daily life of the culture.

     (b) Identifying important geographical features, historical events and political structures of the culture.

     (c) Using appropriate verbal and nonverbal behavior in various situations.

     (d) Experiencing entertainment of the culture.

     (e) Identifying important persons in entertainment and the arts of the culture.

     5. Understand the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied by:

     (a) Discussing the artistic contributions of the culture.

     (b) Describing certain unique products of the culture.

     (c) Identifying the perspectives of the culture that are manifested in its commercial advertisements.

     (d) Understanding messages conveyed in the media.

     6. Understand other disciplines by:

     (a) Comprehending short articles, news broadcasts, commercial advertisements and videos in the foreign language on topics studied in other courses.

     (b) Presenting oral and written reports in the foreign language on topics studied in other courses.

     7. Understand the nature of language through comparisons of language structures by:

     (a) Recognizing the equivalent meaning of idiomatic expressions and other linguistic concepts.

     (b) Demonstrating that languages have important distinctions in sounds that must be mastered to communicate meaning.

     8. Understand cultural differences and similarities by developing an awareness of cultural diversity and the contributions of the culture studied made to American culture.

     9. Use the foreign language in and outside the school by corresponding in the foreign language.

     10. Develop an interest in continuing the study of the foreign language for personal enjoyment and enrichment by:

     (a) Researching and presenting information concerning traveling to and studying in a country where the foreign language is spoken.

     (b) Participating in a project to explore careers that require interaction in the foreign language.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Education by R164-99, eff. 2-16-2000)