Browse North Carolina State Standards

 Competency Goals:: 2. Interpretive Communication: The learner will understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics in the target language.
Objectives:
2.01: Demonstrate understanding of oral and written materials without complete reliance on formally learned vocabulary and structures. 2.02: Demonstrate understanding of more complex oral and written questions relating to familiar and unfamiliar topics. 2.03: Understand and follow more complex oral and written directions, commands, and requests originating from a variety of cultural settings. 2.04: Interpret and analyze main ideas and supporting details from longer oral passages from the target culture(s) (e.g., live and recorded discussions, presentations, lectures on current and past events) or from materials being studied in another class. 2.05: Demonstrate the ability to move beyond literal comprehension toward more critical reading where style and mood (e.g., sarcasm, humor, irony) may be considered. 2.06: Analyze, evaluate, organize, and determine point of view and purpose from oral and written materials. 2.07: Determine meaning by interpreting tone and phrasing of native speakers.