World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages
ing to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers. C ULTURES Interact with cultural competence and understanding Relating 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. Relating Cultural
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