Janice Gullickson K-12 World Languages
Coordinator
PROGRAM GOAL
All students should be given the opportunity to develop and maintain proficiency in two or more languages, one of which is English.
Dana McAlpine Administrative Assistant
742-4851
Learning a second language:
- enhances brain development;
- develops and enhances basic communication and higher order thinking skills;
- develops insight into one's own language and culture;
- develops a greater understanding of first language, increasing skills across the curriculum; and
- promotes awareness, appreciation, and acceptance of other peoples and cultures, as well as of one's own.
Second language learners:
- cross linguistic and cultural boundaries;
- increase understanding of one another, respecting similarities and differences; and
- will be prepared to participate more fully in the global community and marketplace.
WE BELIEVE THAT:
- Second language and culture education is an integral part of the core curriculum.
- Integrated language and culture study prepares students to act with greater awareness of self, other cultures and their relationship to those cultures.
- The ultimate goal of today's world language classroom is meaningful and culturally appropriate communication in another language.
- Language is acquired through extended uninterrupted sequences, beginning in elementary school and continuing through middle and high school.
- A world language program is most successful when it incorporates effective instructional strategies, technologies, and assessment for communicative proficiency.
