A few days ago I complained about the ACTFL Five C Chart, that it misrepresented the role of Communication, as Nathaniel described a few days ago and which is a must read if you haven’t read it yet:
https://benslavic.com/blog/thoughts-on-the-standards/
When a teacher is told that culture is as important as communication she ends up justifying pinatas and making little flags to hang up in the room. We all know that the door to the culture and communities and comparisons and connections (whatever the heck that means) is thick and requires a key – the key of language.
So Alisa sent me this, which they use in Wisconsin. It makes me think that there is some hope for Wisconsin after all. This is really the right image and not the one ACTFL has on their standards page and thank you Alisa for sharing it with us:
I just wish they had not put the four skills on there. They are from the last century. They justify an immediate and early focus on writing and speaking in the minds of 99% of foreign language teachers who don’t get the role of early output in what we do. That is a disaster.