Knowledge/Culture, Skills and Attitude
For Grades 0-2
Knowledge
K8 Essential
Possesses knowledge about what cultures are/how they work.
K8.2 Useful
Knows that a number of cultures, more or less different exist
K8.4.1 Important
Knows that some of the rules/norms/values relative to social practices in other cultures in certain domains (greetings, everyday needs, sexuality death etc…)
K9 Important
Knows that cultural diversity and social diversity are closely linked
K9.4 Important
Knows characteristics of their own situation/cultural environment
K10 Important
Knows the role of culture in intercultural relations and communication
K10.8 Important
Have cultural references which structure ones knowledge and perception of the world/other cultures, as well as one’s intercultural social and communicative practices.
K10.4.3.1 Important
Knows some examples of prejudice/misunderstandings of cultural origin (especially in the case of cultures of those communities whose language one is learning
K10.8.1 Essential
Has knowledge about cultures which are the object of formal learning/which belong to other learners in the class/which one finds in the immediate environment.
K10.8.2 Important
Knows certain elements which are characteristic of one’s own culture which are the object of formal learning/which belong to other learners in the class/which one finds in the immediate environment.
K11 Important
Knows that cultures are continuously evolving
K11.1 Important
Knows that cultural practices/values are created by and evolve under the influence of different factors (history/the environment/the actions of members of the community)
K11.1.2 Useful
Knows the environment often offers opportunity for one to understand/to explain certain cultural practices/values
K11.1.3 Important
Knows that history/geography often offer one the opportunity to understand/to explain certain cultural practices/values
K11.3 Important
Knows that cultures continually exchange elements between themselves
K11.3.1 Essential
Knows that cultures can influence each other
K12 Essential
Knows several phenomena relative to the diversity of cultures
K12.1 Important
Knows that there is (still) a great multiplicity of cultures all over the world
K12.1.1 Useful
Knows that in connection with diversity of cultures, there exists a great plurality of practices/customs/habits
K12.4 Essential
Knows that different cultures are continuously in contact in our immediate environment
K12.3.1 Important
Knows that one must not confuse culture and country/culture and language
K12.5 Essential
Knows that diversity of cultures does not imply superiority/inferiority of any one in relation to the others
K12.5.3 Essential
Knows that hierarchies established arbitrarily between cultures change according to one’s point of view/the point of reference
K12.5.3.1 Useful
Knows that the graphical representation of the world is different according to the map one is using.
K13 Essential
Knows that resemblances and differences exist between (sub) cultures
K13.1 Essential
Knows that each culture has (partially) its own way of functioning
K13.1.1 Essential
Knows that the same act may have a different meaning/value/function according to different cultures
K13.2 Essential
Knows there may be resemblances/differences between cultures.
Skills
S1 Useful
Can observe/analyse linguistic elements/cultural phenomena in languages/cultures, which are more or less familiar
S1.1 Useful
Can make use of/masters processes of observation/analysis (breaking down into elements/classifying/establishing relationships between them)
S1.1.1 Important
Can use inductive approaches in the analysis of linguistic/cultural phenomena
S1.2 Important
Can observe/analyse sounds (in languages little known or not at all)
S1.2.3 Important
Can isolate segment syllables
S1.2.2 Important
Can isolate sounds (phonemes)
S1.2.1 Important
Can listen attentively/in a manner to productions of different languages
S2 Useful
Can identify linguistic elements/cultural phenomena in languages/cultures, which are more or less familiar
S2.1 Important
Can identify sound forms (Has aural recognition skills)
S2.1.1 Important
Can identify simple phonetic elements (sounds)
S2.1.2 Important
Can Identify Prosodic units.
S3 Essential
Can compare linguistic/cultural features of different languages/cultures (Can perceive/establish linguistic cultural proximity and distance.
S3.1 Essential
Can apply procedures for making comparisons
S3.2 Essential
Can perceive proximity and distance (can discriminate aurally)
S3.2.1 Essential
Can establish similarity/differences between languages/cultures
S4 Useful
Can talk about/explain certain aspects of one’s own language/culture/other languages/other cultures.
S4.3 Useful
Can explain one’s own knowledge of languages
S6 Important
Can interact in situations of contact between languages/cultures
S6.3 Essential
Can communicate while taking sociolinguistic/sociocultural differences into account
S6.3.1 Important
Can use formulae of politeness appropriately.
S6.3.2 Important
Can use forms of address appropriately.
S6.4 Essential
Can communicate between languages
S6.4.1 Important
Can give an account in one language of information dealt with in another language
S7 Useful
Can assume ownership of (learn) linguistic features of usage/cultural references or behaviours, which belong to more of less familiar languages & cultures.
S7.1 Important
Can memorize unfamiliar features
S7.1.1 Important
Can memorize unfamiliar aural features (simple phonetic units, prosodic units, words…)
S7.1.2 Useful
Can memorize features of unfamiliar graphic elements (letters, ideograms, words…)
S7.2 Useful
Can reproduce unfamiliar features of a language
S7.2.1 Important
Can reproduce unfamiliar aural features (simple phonetic units, prosodic features, words…)
S7.2.2 Important
Can reproduce features of unfamiliar graphic elements (letters, ideograms, words…)
Attitude
A1-A6
Attention/sensitivity/curiosity/positive acceptance/openness/respect/valorisation
A1 Important
Attention to foreign languages/cultures/persons/to linguistic/cultural/human diversity in the environment/to language in general to linguistic/cultural/human diversity in general.
A1.1 Useful
Attention to language (to semiotic manifestations)/to culture/to persons in general.
A1.1.1 Useful
Attention to verbal and non-verbal signs of communication.
A1.1.2 Useful
Considering/apprehending linguistic/cultural phenomena as an object of observation/of reflection
A1.1.3 Important
Attention to the formal aspects of language in general/particular languages/cultures.
A2 Important
Sensitivity to the existence of other languages/cultures/persons/to the existence of linguistic/cultural/human diversity
A2.1 Important
Sensitivity towards one’s own language/culture and other languages/cultures
A2.2 Useful
Sensitivity to linguistic/cultural differences
A2.2.1.1 Important
Being aware of the diversity of linguistic universes’ (sounds, graphisms, syntactic organisations, etc…) cultural universes (table manners, traffic laws, etc…)
A2.5 Important
Sensitivity to pluralingualism and plurafication in the immediate or remote environment
A2.5.2.1 Important
Being aware of the diversity of languages/cultures present in the classroom (when these are set side by side with one’s own linguistic/cultural Practices/knowledge)
A2.5.2 Important
Being aware of the linguistic/cultural diversity of the classroom
A3 Essential
Curiosity about/interest in foreign languages/cultures/persons//pluricultural contexts//the linguistic/cultural/human diversity of the environment//linguistic/cultural/human diversity in general.
A3.1 Essential
Curiosity about a multilingual/multicultural environment
A4 Essential
Positive acceptance of linguistic/cultural diversity/of what is different
A4.5 Important
Acceptance of the importance of all language/cultures and the different places they occupy.
A4.5.1.1 Important
Positive acceptance of minority languages/cultures in the classroom
A4.5.1 Important
Acceptance/taking into account of the value of all the languages/cultures of the classroom
A6 Important
Respect/regard for foreign/different languages/cultures/persons//for the linguistic/cultural/human diversity of the environment//for linguistic/cultural human diversity as such (in general)
A6.1 Important
Respect for the differences and diversity (in a plurilingual and pluricultural environment).
A9-A12 Attitudes/stances of: Questioning –
Distanciation – An avoidance attachment style used more for distancing strategies such as denying or minimizing their internal distress.
Decentration – Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.
A9 Important
An attitude of critical questioning/a critical position towards language/culture in general
A9.1 Important
A will to ask questions relative to languages/cultures
A9.2 Important
Considering languages/cultures/linguistic/cultural diversity//linguistic/cultural mixes//the learning of languages//their importance//their utility as issues about which questions and discussions may arise.
A18 Important
A motivation to learn languages (of schooling/family/foreign/regional…)
A18.1 Important
A positive attitude towards the learning of languages (and the speakers who speak them)
A18.1.1 Important
Interest in learning of language/languages of schooling (especially for allophone (one of two or more variants of the same phoneme)learners)
An interest in the learning of languages other than those for which teaching is actually available
