Language B: French and Bahasa Indonesia
The Language B curriculum reflects current knowledge about second language learning, learner-centred teaching and cross-curricular integration. It is based on the premise that students acquire language knowledge, skills and attitudes over a period of time and that over time their ability to communicate grows.
Students learn to communicate through the processes of comprehension, production and negotiation. Comprehension involves deriving meaning or significance form an oral or written text. Production is expressing meaning by creating oral or written texts driven by a context and a communicative intent, and designed to suit a particular audience. Negotiation involves an interactive process whereby participants interpret the meaning of the message and create new messages in reaction to this interpretation. Integral to these three processes are the communicative functions (e.g. requesting information, providing information) and the real-life communicative tasks to be carried out. The task indicates which language skill is being used (i.e. Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Oral Production, Written Production) and for what communicative function.
The primary aim of Language B is to encourage students to gain competence in a modern language other than their mother tongue, with the long-term goal of balanced bilingualism.
Learning additional languages greatly contributes to the holistic development of students. Proficiency in a second language gives students access to a broader range of input, experiences and perspectives, and is believed to raise achievement in other subject areas, as well as giving the student the enjoyment of being able to communicate in a language other than their mother tongue. The study of Language B aims to encourage in the student a respect for and understanding of other languages and cultures, and to provide a skills base to facilitate further language learning.
This curriculum aims to promote in students:
· a desire to learn French or Indonesian for personal benefit,
· a desire to develop communicative skills in French or Indonesian
· a willingness to experiment with a second language,
· a willingness to participate in a variety of learning experiences in French or Indonesian,
· an acceptance and appreciation of French or Indonesian language learning as one of the many subjects area experiences in which they engage,
· a recognition that learning French or Indonesian supports and reinforces knowledge and skills acquired in other subject areas,
· the acquisition of learning strategies that are also applicable to English language arts and other subject areas,
· the acquisition of language learning strategies that can be transferred to the acquisition of other languages,
· an awareness that the French or Indonesian language is used outside the classroom as a medium for learning and communication, and
· respect for cultural and linguistic diversity.
To help keep parents informed of the learning focus in Language B, an overview is provided in each unit letter.
Students learn to communicate through the processes of comprehension, production and negotiation. Comprehension involves deriving meaning or significance form an oral or written text. Production is expressing meaning by creating oral or written texts driven by a context and a communicative intent, and designed to suit a particular audience. Negotiation involves an interactive process whereby participants interpret the meaning of the message and create new messages in reaction to this interpretation. Integral to these three processes are the communicative functions (e.g. requesting information, providing information) and the real-life communicative tasks to be carried out. The task indicates which language skill is being used (i.e. Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Oral Production, Written Production) and for what communicative function.
The primary aim of Language B is to encourage students to gain competence in a modern language other than their mother tongue, with the long-term goal of balanced bilingualism.
Learning additional languages greatly contributes to the holistic development of students. Proficiency in a second language gives students access to a broader range of input, experiences and perspectives, and is believed to raise achievement in other subject areas, as well as giving the student the enjoyment of being able to communicate in a language other than their mother tongue. The study of Language B aims to encourage in the student a respect for and understanding of other languages and cultures, and to provide a skills base to facilitate further language learning.
This curriculum aims to promote in students:
· a desire to learn French or Indonesian for personal benefit,
· a desire to develop communicative skills in French or Indonesian
· a willingness to experiment with a second language,
· a willingness to participate in a variety of learning experiences in French or Indonesian,
· an acceptance and appreciation of French or Indonesian language learning as one of the many subjects area experiences in which they engage,
· a recognition that learning French or Indonesian supports and reinforces knowledge and skills acquired in other subject areas,
· the acquisition of learning strategies that are also applicable to English language arts and other subject areas,
· the acquisition of language learning strategies that can be transferred to the acquisition of other languages,
· an awareness that the French or Indonesian language is used outside the classroom as a medium for learning and communication, and
· respect for cultural and linguistic diversity.
To help keep parents informed of the learning focus in Language B, an overview is provided in each unit letter.