Statement of Philosophy

Language and communication are at the heart of the human experience. The United States must educate students who are linguistically and culturally equipped to communicate successfully in a pluralistic American society and abroad. This imperative envisions a future in which ALL students will develop and maintain proficiency in English and at least one other language, modern or classical. Children who come to school from non-English backgrounds should also have opportunities to develop further proficiencies in their first language.

 

  STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING

COMMUNICATION
Communicate in Languages Other Than English

• Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions
• Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics
• Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.

CULTURES
Gain Knowledge and Understanding of Other Cultures

• Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied
• Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied

CONNECTIONS
Connect with Other Disciplines and Acquire Information

• Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language
• Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures

COMPARISONS
Develop Insight into the Nature of Language and Culture

• Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own
• Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.

COMMUNITIES
Participate in Multilingual Communities at Home & Around the World

• Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting
• Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.

 

5 Cs of National Standards	Turkish 1 (Level )A1
COMMUNICATION	COMPREHENSION	Listening	Understands some basic structures and words when it is spoken clearly.
		Reading	Can read anything with, but not fluently. Understands the familiar words and phrases, and simple sentences in the catalogs, fliers or posters.
		Conversation	Can have simple conversations. Can understand the other party if he/she speaks slowly, clearly and repeats when necessary.  Depending on the simplicity of the topic, can ask and answer questions.
	SPEAKING	Verbalization	Can make simple sentences to describe himself/herself, his/her family/ the place, the things, and the people around.  Can make someone understand using simple and basic structures with a limited vocabulary.
	WRITING	Written expressions	Can write short paragraphs using short and simple sentences. For example; postcards, notes, massages, memos, friendly letters, greeting cards, thank you cards, some application or registration forms asking basic things; name, last name, address, nationality, telephone number etc.Word choice is limited but developing. Prints upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet. Can write for specific purposes (often teacher guided)
CULTURES			Will demonstrate a general knowledge and understanding of Turkish culture including an awareness of the countries in which Turkish is spoken and familiarity with common practices in Turkish culture (greeting practices, food, family structure, festivals etc.). The student will also begin to develop an awareness of Turkish art, including music and literature.
CONNECTIONS			Will make connections to various other subject areas such as math (numbers, making purchases), social studies (nationalities, cultural topics), science (weather), health (sports, food groups) and art (colors).
COMPARISONS			Will demonstrate insight into the nature of language and culture by comparing his or her own language and culture to Turkish.  Comparisons made will include sentence order, grammar structure (Turkish grammar is based on Vowel Harmony), the formation of plurals, phonetics, verbs, importance of suffixes in Turkish language and the concepts of cognates and borrowed words.  Cultural comparisons made will include greeting practices, family structure, educational systems, cuisine, way of dialog between people (grown up-child /youth relations, living styles (housing, furnishing, etc.).
COMMUNITIES			Will meet the Turkish community, visiting Turkish families and Cultural centers. Will have a chance of participating Turkish Olympiads both in the state and Turkey. Will have a chance to view the annual Turkic festival. So will meet different Turkic cultures from all over the world.