Foreign Language Standards

Foreign Language Standards

ÍNDICE

Structure

¿WHAT ARE STANDARD?

Conceps

Importance

Purpose

¿WHAT ARE STANDARD?

1. They are clear and public criteria.
2. They allow knowing what children and adolescents should learn.
3. They establish the reference point of what they are capable of knowing and knowing how to do in context with English at different levels.

They represent clear and public criteria that allow us to know what children and young people should learn, they mark the reference point of what they are capable of knowing and knowing how to do in contexts with English at different levels.

CONCEPTS

Ser bilingüe es esencial en el mundo globalizado. Por ello, el Ministerio de Educación Nacional, a través del Programa Nacional de Bilingüismo, impulsa políticas educativas para favorecer, no sólo el desarrollo de la lengua materna y el de las diversas lenguas indígenas y criollas, sino también para fomentar el aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras, como es el caso del idioma. (MEN, 2015).

In the Colombian context and for the scope of this proposal, English has the character of a foreign language. Given its importance as a universal language, the Ministry of Education has established within its policy to improve the quality of English teaching, allowing better levels of performance in this language. Thus, it is intended that students, upon graduating from the school system, achieve a level of proficiency in English B1 (Pre-intermediate).

IMPORTANCE

Its purpose is to provide a broad context in the reading of the standards, it is convenient to make some precisions about what the MEN understands by bilingualism, foreign language and second language.

1. BILINGUALISM: Refers to the different degrees of proficiency with which an individual manages to communicate in more than one language and one culture.

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"The teaching that leaves a mark is not the one that is done from head to head, but from heart to heart."

2. FOREIGN LANGUAGE: It is one that is not spoken in the immediate and local environment. 3. THE SECOND LANGUAGE: It is the one that is essential for official, commercial, social and educational activities or the one that is required for communication between citizens.

PURPOSE

It is to help Colombian students prepare to face the demands of the globalized world. contribute to having citizens capable of communicating in English, with internationally comparable standards. has the fundamental commitment to create the conditions for Colombians to develop communication skills in another language.

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The Foreign Language Proficiency Standards: English, make it possible to establish the basic levels of quality to which boys and girls from all regions of Colombia are entitled”. Likewise, the English standards constitute a fundamental orientation so that English teachers, administrators and parents are clear about the communicative competences that children of the Basic and Intermediate levels are expected to develop, to help them to achieve the stated goal.

Having a good level of English facilitates access to job and educational opportunities that help improve the quality of life. Being competent in another language is essential in the globalized world, which requires being able to communicate better, open borders, understand other contexts, appropriate knowledge and circulate it, understand and be understood, enrich oneself, and play a decisive role in the country's development.

STRUCTURE

FOR EACH GRADE GROUP THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED:

What students should know and be able to do in the language when passing through these groups of grades. A specific performance level has been defined that is comparable, both in the MEN goals, and in the levels of the Common European Framework ( MCE).

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STRUCTURE OF THE STANDARDS

The general standard (at the top) heads each box and uses cartoon-like characters to explain what students should know and be able to do.

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Comprehension Skills

In this column the specific standards corresponding to reading ability and on the right side the reference to communicative competence is included (1,2,3).

Production Skills

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