Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:

a)  explain the World-Readiness Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century as reflected in the Alabama Course of Study and relate them to the instructional activities which they will observe and create.

b)  define communicative competence and proficiency and relate these constructs to the World-Readiness Standards for Language.

c)  describe each of the five proficiency levels for speaking as outlined in the ACTFL guidelines and explain how these are subsumed under the National Standards.

d)  create, present, and evaluate demonstration lessons to demonstrate knowledge about comprehensible input (CI)and structured output to include all three communicative modes (interpretive, interpersonal and presentational.

e)  create a unit plan for a first semester beginning level course in either French, German, or Spanish that contains the following:

1)  goals that summarize the learning outcomes in individual lesson plans;

2)  student learning outcomes for each lesson that are subcomponents of the I Can Statements;

3)  interactive interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational activities that lead to the  stated outcomes and that serve as formative assessments;

4)  authentic tasks that develop cultural knowledge and understanding using all three communicative modes;

5)  a summative assessment at the end of the unit to assess all three modes, interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational with real world tasks.