• You are able to follow informative media sources in your heritage language.

• You understand the difference between fact and interpretation and can name some cultural aspects.

Example: How do people from different cultural backgrounds interpret nonverbal communication?

• You understand the background of the media in different cultures.

Example:

• You can explain why in certain countries the Eurovision song festival is boycotted or why certain songs or symbols (rainbow flags) are not broadcasted.
• You can compare a news item about the same subject published in media with different cultural background.

• You are able to describe the significance of linguistic and cultural identity as well as heritage language and the status of your heritage language among other languages. You are able to utilise media and cultural offerings in different languages.

The student can name pros and cons from being multicultural and can use these advantages e.g. by gathering information in more than one language, have celebrations from more than one culture.

Pros and Cons of cultural identity

• You are able to compare a subject from different language/cultural sources and compare them, draw your own conclusion.

Example:

• Compare Wikipedia sites in Finnish and your heritage language and see what is different. Find out what is true, or why they are different.
• Compare same news, different stories. What is the background of the source. Why are they different? Which source is more reliable why?

• You are able to create media (newspaper, news flash, internet page) utilizing your own cultural background and language knowledge.

Example:

• Students make a brochure/commercial in which they promote why to go the heritage language lessons.
• They make their own newspaper, about heritage news in Finland (e.g. Dutch Sinterklaas celebrations all over Finland, Chinese new year celebrations etc. ).