WORLD LANGUAGE

MISSION

To prepare students to communicate using another language and to build the skills and awareness needed to understand and effectively interact with other cultures in professional and personal settings.

BELIEFS/PHILOSOPHY

Learning another language:

• Improves a student’s capacity to reason, conceptualize, analyze, and solve problems, as well as increase proficiency in his or her own language.
• Improves standardized test scores and performance in other subjects.
• Increases the ability to interact at home and abroad (via the internet, travel, jobs, academics) in a global community and helps to build political, economic, and social skills.
• Builds community by creating empathy and an understanding of other cultures, as well as our own.
• Prepares students for intermediate and advanced college language courses. This can save a student time and thousands of dollars in college tuition.
• Improves Proficiency in student’s own language.

OUTCOMES/GOALS

Students will:

• Use the language skills of listening, reading, writing and speaking or signing to communicate effectively with others in a multilingual or global community.
• Understand the relevance and value of learning a language.
• Learn strategies, language structures, and patterns that help transfer learned concepts to new situations.
• Recognize similarities and appreciate differences between cultures that will facilitate the examination of attitudes, beliefs, and values.