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- 1. Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High SchoolRed Deer, AB FRENCH GERMAN JAPANESE SPANISH
- 6. Relevant learning tasksHow do you learn?Communicative oral activitiesInteractive ActivitiesReading textsTechno:Twitter, Facebook, Wiki,BlogsViewing
- 7. 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 want to be able to speak to my grandparents.”“I want to travel there.”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 our students learn a second language?
- 8. A language is not just words but a window to another cultureSecond language study will help you relate better to people from other languages and cultures around the world.
- 9. Learning a second language is FUN and occupationally rewarding.BIG PAYOFFSMore critical thinkersMore creative problem solversMore understanding of other individuals, cultures, ways of seeing the world, faithsMore critical thinkers
- 10. More creative problem solvers
- 11. More understanding of other individuals, cultures, ways of seeing the world, faithsMore compassionate
- 12. More understanding of your first language
- 13. More prevention against dementia as you age!compassionateMore understanding of your first language
- 14. 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
- 15. “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.”Nelson Mandela 2007
- 17. 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. Anonymous2008The International Year of Languages