Proficiency Objectives and Curricular Documents
- Arabic Curricula: First Year - Second Year - Third Year - Fourth Year
- Accelerated Arabic Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- Chinese Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- French Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- German Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- Greek Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- Hebrew Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- Hindi Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- Italian Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- Japanese Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- Korean Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- LCTL: First Year - Second Year
- Persian Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- Portuguese Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- Russian Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- Spanish Curricula: First Year - Second Year
- Vietnamese Curricula: First Year - Second Year
Curricular documents, available for some of the more regularly taught languages at Stanford, are rooted in the work of Guadalupe Valdés, Elizabeth Bernhardt, Alice Miano, Lyris Wiedemann, Ana Sierra, and Claudia Angelelli. This group drafted the descriptions of target abilities for first- and second-year Spanish and Portuguese in 1997. The development of their work is documented in an article authored by Bernhardt, Valdés & Miano in 2009 entitled "A chronicle of Standards-based curricular reform in a research university" found in Virginia Scott (Ed.) Principles and Practices of the Standards in College Foreign Language Education (pp. 54-85). Boston: Heinle & Heinle.
Since the time of this initial work in Spanish, other language programs housed at the Stanford Language Center have used the Spanish language objectives as a model for their standard setting. Authors include:
- Arabic (2008, 2011): Khalil Barhoum, Salem Aweiss, Khalid Obeid, Ramzi Salti
- Accelerated Arabic (2012): Khalid Obeid
- Chinese (2008): Chaofen Sun, Marina Chung, Nina Lin, Hong Zeng
- French (revised 2010): Heather Howard, Jane Dozer, Miranda Kershaw, Marie Lasnier, Kenric Tsethlikai
- German (Revised 2011): Elizabeth Bernhardt, William Petig, Per Urlaub, Paul Nissler
- Hebrew (2008): Vered Shemtov, Gallia Porat
- Hindi (2010): Eva Prionas, Sneha Desai
- Italian (revised 2011): Anna Cellinese, Sara Gelmetti
- Japanese (2009): Yoshiko Matsumoto, Hisayo Okano Lipton, Momoyo Kubo Lowdermilk
- Korean (2010): Hee-Sun Kim
- LCTL (2011): Eva Prionas
- Persian (2012): Shervin Emami
- Russian (2008): Eugenia Khassina
- Spanish (revised 2010): Ali Miano
- Vietnamese (2012): Dzuong Nguyen
- General editor, document coordination: Joan Molitoris
Related Pages
Objectives and Curricula
Curricular documents are available for some of the most commonly taught languages at Stanford.
Proficiency Notation
The Proficiency in Foreign Language Notation appears on the official transcripts of students whose levels of achievement are equivalent to those that an excellent student is expected to demonstrate late in the third quarter of the third year of study in that language.