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| Title | Article: Global Competence: Where Do World Languages Fit In? |
| Body | From http://nclrc.org Global Competence: Where Do World Languages Fit In? by Michele Anciaux Aoki June/July 2010 Over the past decade, a number of leaders in business, education, government, and the non-profit sector have come together to articulate a vision for global education in our country. In 2009, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) launched an innovative project to develop a new type of assessment system designed to use actual student work to develop a continuum of work that exhibits global competence. As the workgroup began to meet, they realized that first and foremost they would need a definition of “global competence.” To that end, they developed a Global Competence Matrix. When the Global Competence Matrix was first presented to a number of world language leaders, it engendered an interesting response. They felt it did not go far enough in making explicit the requirement for students to study and learn languages beyond English. And being totally candid with each other, the world language leaders had to admit that even studying another language did not guarantee that a student would develop global competence. It would certainly be possible to simply become narrow-minded in more than one language or to study the language as an academic object of interest without “translating their ideas and findings into appropriate actions to improve conditions.” Read the full article at http://nclrc.org/about_teaching/topics/feature.html |
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