WL5980: Heritage Vietnamese

Course Description

Heritage Vietnamese is a language course with 8 units focused on a variety of aspects of life and culture- including: home life- student life- leisure time- special events- nationalities- immigration- travel-education plans- news events- history- nature and wildlife?. Students will strengthen their Vietnamese reading- writing- speaking and listening skills.

Essential Standards

• Interpersonal Communication: Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions. (1.1)
• Interpretive Communication: Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics. (1.2)
• Presentational Communication: Learners present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers. (1.3)
• Relational Cultural Practices to Perspectives: Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied. (2.1)
• Relational Cultural Products to Perspectives: Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the products and perspectives of the cultures studied. (2.2)
• Making Connections: Learners build, reinforce, and expand their knowledge of other disciplines while using the language to develop critical thinking and to solve problems creatively. (3.1)
• Acquiring Information and Diverse Perspectives: Learners access and evaluate information and diverse perspectives that are available through the language and its cultures. (3.2)
• Language Comparisons: Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own. (4.1)
• Cultural Comparisons: Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own. (4.2)
• School and Global Communities: Learners use the language both within and beyond the classroom to interact and collaborate in the community and the globalized world. (5.1)
• Lifelong Learner: Learners set goals and reflect on their progress in using languages for enjoyment, enrichment, and advancement. (5.2)
• Communication: Communicate effectively in more than one language in order to function in a variety of situations and for multiple purposes. (1.WL)
• Cultures: Interact with cultural competence and understanding (2.WL)
• Connections: Connect with other disciplines and acquire information and diverse perspectives in order to use the language to function in academic and career-related situations. (3.WL)
• Comparisons: Develop insight into the nature of language and culture in order to interact with cultural competence. (4.WL)
• Communities: Communicate and interact with cultural competence in order to participate in multilingual communities at home and around the world. (5.WL)