website pp oct12
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languages dept goals descriptionTRANSCRIPT
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FRENCH GERMAN JAPANESE SPANISH
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Second Languages at LTCHSCourses
Japanese
Spanish
French
German
9, 10, 20, 30
20IB, 30IB
French 10H, 20IB, 30IB Japanese 20 IB, 30IB
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How do you learn?Relevant learning tasks
Interactive Activities
Reading texts
Viewing
Techno:Twitter, Facebook, Wiki,
Blogs
Fun
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Student Samples
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Academic Reasons
“I enjoy learning it”“I’m good at it”“I find it easy”“I like learning a language with a different writing system.”
Personal Interest & Relationships“I can speak with my grandparents.”“I can go on the exchange trips.”
Career Reasons
“It might be useful when I get a job”“Great skill to have in life”“Can help in a future career path”
Why do students learn a second language?
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A language is not just words but a window to another culture
•Second language study will help you relate better to people from other languages and cultures around the world.
•Learning a second language is FUN and occupationally rewarding.
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More critical thinkersMore creative problem solversMore understanding of other individuals, cultures, ways of seeing the world, faithsMore compassionateMore understanding of your first language
BIG PAYOFFS
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Monolingualism will not serve the next generation well. It implies inflexibility and that others should always be prepared.
Only knowing English makes you dependent on the linguistic competence and goodwill of others.
Nuffield Languages Inquiry 2000 - UK
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Learn a second language and change
your world....
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Nelson Mandela 2007
“If you speak to a man in a language
he understands, you speak to his head.
If you speak to a man in his own language,
you speak to his heart.”
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BACKPACKS to an Orphanage inGuatamala: students donations
CLASS PROJECTS
Make a Wish Foundation Japan, Germany, France
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Exchange Trips
France
Germany JapanSpain
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Through learning LANGUAGE we learn about culture.
Through learning about CULTURE we learn respect for others.
Through learning RESPECT for others we can hope for PEACE. Anonymous
2008The International Year of Languages
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References:
S. Eaton. (n.d.) Want to change the world? Learn another language.