World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages
• Classical Languages (Latin and Greek) The 2011 report, A Decade of Foreign Language Standards: Im-pact, Influence, and Future Directions, provided evidence of and support for the following concepts which influenced these revisions: •The National Standards are influencing language learning from elementary, through secondary, to postsecondary
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