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World Language Standards: Stage II

Range and Phase of Proficiency: Intermediate-Mid

Class Level 4

Stages of Language Proficiency: There are 5 stages of language proficiency on the ILR

Scale. Following are the guidelines for the students at Stage II of Punjabi Proficiency.
https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/worldlanguage2009.pdf

Performance (Created): Learners understand and produce sentences and strings of sentences.

Content: 2.0 Students acquire information, recognize distinctive viewpoints
Stage II 2.1 Students address topics related to self and the immediate environment, including:
a. Social relationships
b. People in the community, interacting with people in the community
c. Zoo and farm animals, fables

d. Holiday customs and transition points in life
e. Significant historical figures
f. Professions
g. Cuisine and recipes

h. Health, medical care
i. Names of days, months and seasons

Structures 2.0 Students use sentence-level elements to understand concrete topics.
Stage II 2.1 Use sentence-level elements to produce informal communications.
(morphology or 2.2 Identify similarities and differences in the sentence-level elements (morphology

syntax) or syntax or both) of the languages the students know.
Communication 2.0 Students use created language (sentences and strings of sentences).
Stage II 2.1 Engage in oral or written conversations.
2.2 Interpret written or spoken language.

2.3 Present to an audience of listeners or readers.
Functions
2.4 Initiate, participate in, and close a conversation; ask and answer questions.
2.5 Demonstrate understanding of the general meaning, key ideas, and details in texts.
2.6 Produce and present a written or oral product in a culturally authentic way.

Cultures: 2.0 Students choose an appropriate response to a variety of situations.
Stage II 2.1 Demonstrate understanding of the roles that products/practices play in the culture.
2.2 State similarities and differences in two cultures.
2.3 State reasons for cultural borrowings.

Settings 2.0 Students use language in highly predictable common daily settings.
Stage II 2.1 Recognize age-appropriate cultural/language-use opportunities outside the classroom.

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