Second Language Goals and Objectives
Listening Goal
Listening Goal: To Understand Language In Context When Spoken By
An Educated Native Speaker.
Stage One
1.1 Demonstrate understanding of everyday words when heard.
1.2 Follow affirmative and negative directions and commands.
1.3 Demonstrate understanding of simple affirmative and negative
phrases, statements, and questions.
1.4 Demonstrate understanding of who, what, where, how, when, and
how much/many questions.
1.5 Demonstrate understanding of descriptive words in simple
phrases and sentences.
1.6 Demonstrate understanding of expressions of emotion, condition,
and preference.
1.7 Demonstrate understanding of action words in context.
1.8 Recall facts and make inferences from a group of related
sentences.
Stage Two
2.1 Demonstrate understanding of words, phrases, simple statements
and questions heard without visual cues or props.
2.2 Demonstrate understanding of meaning from context clues.
2.3 Demonstrate understanding of expressions of emotion, condition,
and preference.
2.4 Extract the main idea from material heard.
2.5 Recall facts and list details from material viewed and heard.
2.6 Demonstrate understanding of descriptive passages when heard
which compare or contrast two or more elements or which depict the
relationship between or among the elements.
2.7 Demonstrate understanding of material heard by predicting
outcomes, drawing inferences, and making judgments.
Stage Three
3.1 Recognize past, present, and future time when heard in simple and
complex sentences and in longer passages.
3.2 Recognize intonation patterns and their effect on meaning.
3.3 Demonstrate understanding of the main idea in telephone calls,
radio and TV broadcasts, oral reports, poems, and short stories.
3.4 Summarize conversations and oral passages on everyday topics,
personal interests and activities, and current events.
3.5 Identify feelings, emotions, and preferences as expressed in
conversations, songs, poems, paragraphs, and excerpts from literature
and media.
3.6 Demonstrate understanding of material heard by predicting
outcomes, drawing inferences, and making judgments.
3.7 Demonstrate understanding of point of view or purpose.
Speaking Goal
Speaking Goal: To Speak The Language So As To Be Understood By A
Native Speaker Of That Language.
Stage One
1.1 Use everyday words in speech.
1.2 Use simple phrases, including courtesy formulae.
1.3 Use learned sentences in everyday situations.
1.4 Describe pictures/visuals, people, places, and objects in the
immediate environment.
1.5 Express emotion, preference, wishing, and condition.
1.6 Use action words and phrases.
1.7 Give affirmative commands.
1.8 Express possession.
1.9 Ask questions.
Stage Two
2.1 Use learned phrases and sentences to initiate and sustain simple
conversation.
2.2 Recombine known language to produce personalized statements,
questions, and responses.
2.3 Produce negative and affirmative statements and questions.
2.4 Describe in phrases and sentences people, places, things,
activities, and events.
2.5 Describe a sequence of events.
2.6 Make comparisons and contrasts.
2.7 Express emotion, condition, and preference.
2.8 Use language to classify, summarize, predict, judge, and infer.
Stage Three
3.1 Converse on everyday topics with accuracy in some basic
language structures using stress, rhythm, and intonation which are
comprehensible to a native speaker.
3.2 Communicate orally in past, present, and future time.
3.3 Ask questions to seek information and clarification of meaning;
give specific information orally.
3.4 Describe with detail a person, place or thing.
3.5 Narrate a simple story or deliver a simple oral report.
3.6 Express emotions, feelings, and preferences and give supporting
details.
3.7 Express personal point of view and support it.