University System of Georgia

Learning Outcomes for Foreign Languages

1001

SPEAKING

• Use common greetings and short descriptions of themselves, family, friends, school, daily routine activities, pastimes, food.
• Reproduce learned material in talking about what they are doing today, what they did yesterday, and what they are going to do tomorrow.  
• Be able to make recombinations of learned material.
• Ask questions about classmates, their facilities, daily routine activities, pastimes, food.

LISTENING

• Understand classroom instruction.  
• Understand the "edited" message spoken by the instructor even though not understanding every word.  
• Understand classmates' utterances when supported by situation context.

READING

• Read simple texts that describe target culture family, school setting, basic activities.
• Read newspaper and magazine announcements of events, sales, and be able to understand the message.
• Read most directions in exams and classroom activities.

WRITING

• Be able to write short paragraphs about self, family, school, basic activities.   Sentences will be primarily recombinations of already learned phrases but will begin to be placed in sequential order.
• Be able to compose a paragraph with internal structure and meaning.

1002

SPEAKING

• Enter into basic dialogues with classmates.   Describe themselves, their families, and routine activities today, yesterday, tomorrow.   Be able to give a few statements about the past.
• Have a command of interrogative words and be able to use them correctly
• Start formulating opinions about predictable events.

LISTENING

• When listening to a simple story, be able to distinguish between what they did and what they used to do.
• Understand many classroom directions and recombinations of set phrases.
• Understand simple summaries of last week, yesterday, and what we used to do.

READING

• Read short segments of prose with familiar vocabulary.
• Read and explain simple weather reports, movie ads, travel information.

WRITING

• Write short notes to classmates about plans for the weekend or descriptions of last weekend.
• Write descriptions of classroom activities including assigned vocabulary and recombinations of assigned phrases.
• Write description of self, family, holidays, travel, daily activities.   Write about things that happened when they were children, yesterday, and plans for next summer.

2001

SPEAKING

• Be able to engage in dialogue with classmates and instructor about task-oriented and social situations.
• Be able to initiate and respond to simple statements about self; family, daily routine, holidays, travel.
• Be able to initiate and respond to simple statements in the present, past and future.
• Know some colloquial expressions and use them appropriately.

LISTENING

• Be able to understand most classroom instructions.
• Be able to understand clear narrative descriptions by the instructor.
• Be able to understand the reading of a simple paragraph from a short article or story.
• Be able to listen to and answer basic questions about something that has been read.

READING

• Be able to read short, simple examples of authentic material with cognates and some definitions by the instructor on topics that are relevant and/or interesting to the students.  
• Be able to read descriptive texts, chronological narrations, and dialogues.

WRITING

• Be able to write compositions guided by a reading passage.
• Be able to write narration about events that happened when they were children, yesterday, or last year.
• Be able to write a paragraph about self; family, friends, with basic chronology.

2002

SPEAKING

• Use the language in a spontaneous way communicating some opinions and views about self, family, etc.
• Be able to maintain a simple conversation with someone who speaks only the target language.
• Be able to answer predictable questions in a manner that does not impede comprehension.
• Be able to lead the conversation on occasion by interrupting, asking questions, and disagreeing.

LISTENING

• Be able to understand most everything that goes on in the classroom and follow "stories" told by the teachers about events last year, today, and next week.
• Understand selected narrations about the way things used to be.
• Understand some conjecture and opinions about the way things used to be.

READING

• Be able to read simple short stories with some reading preparation exercises and glosses.
• Be able to read short excerpts or ads from newspapers and magazines about familiar topics.
• Be able to read and understand most classroom directions, news reports, weather reports, etc.

WRITING

• Be able to write expository prose of one to two pages, consisting of a description or an opinion, about very familiar topics.   Sentences and paragraphs may be linked.