The primary goal of this project is, through career development mentoring, to provide the learners of FL with opportunities to develop well-rounded 5 C Standard goal areas – Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons and Communities.

This project is to enable the connecting of classroom learning to content subjects and real application, and thus makes students language learning more relatable and meaningful.

1. Communication

• Students can understand, interpret and analyze authentic informational texts, along with conversations and discussions.
• Students can exchange information and ideas; meet their needs or address situations; express and react to preferences and opinions in conversations.
• Students can present information to narrate, inform, describe, or explain.

2. Cultures

• Students converse comfortably with others from the target culture in familiar and some unfamiliar situations and show some understanding of cultural differences.
• Students demonstrate awareness of the subtle differences among cultural behaviors and adjust their behavior accordingly in familiar and some unfamiliar situations (e.g. interacting with professional advisor or mentor from the target culture).

3. Connections

• Students utilize authentic source –mentors, to acquire information and to exchange opinions on issues of academic and professional interests.

4. Comparisons

• Students compare ways of networking in work places and universities and understand the similarities and differences between the target society and their own.

5. Communities

• Students engage in school community–mentors, graduate seniors.
• Students communicate orally and in writing with members of the target language community on topics such as college life in general, one’s major and career.