Transcription of STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
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STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING
STANDARDSFORFOREIGNLANGUAGELEARNINGP reparing for the 21st CenturyCOMMUNITIESCONNECTIONSCOMMUNICATI ONCOMPARISONSCULTURESIn 1993, a coalition offour national LANGUAGE organi-zations (the AmericanCouncil on the Teaching ofForeign Languages, theAmerican Association ofTeachers of French, theAmerican Association ofTeachers of German, andthe American Association ofTeachers of Spanish andPortuguese) received fund-ing to develop standardsfor FOREIGN LANGUAGE educa-tion, grades K-12. This was the seventhand final subject area toreceive federal support todevelop national standardsas part of the Bush Admini-stration s America 2000education initiative, whichcontinued under Goals 2000 in the Clinton Administration.
Formerly, most teaching in foreign lan- guage classrooms concentrated on the how (grammar) to say what (vocabulary). While these components of language are indeed crucial, the current organizing princi-
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