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Byram Hills Foreign Language Department
Goal One: Students will be able to use a language other than
English for communication.
The primary goal of second language education is the achievement
of functional communication in the context of the culture of the
target language.
Goal Two: Students will develop cross-cultural skills and understandings.
The achievement of cultural goals will enable students to develop
greater understanding and appreciation cultures in other countries
as well as in their own country and community.
Goal Three: Students will be able to access new information
and knowledge.
As life-long learners, individuals with second language capacities
will be able to gain access to a wide body of knowledge from sources
and perspectives only available in the target language.
Goal Four: Students will develop insight into their own language
and culture.
Students will benefit from the language learning experience by discovering
different patterns among language systems and by learning that non-verbal
aspects of language (gestures, facial expression, and body language)
are critically important to communication, and differ widely from
culture to culture.
Goal Five: Students will be able to participate in multilingual
communities and a global society.
The contemporary world, with its expanding domestic and international
markets, and continually growing multicultural communities, needs
citizens proficient in more than one language. Our local community,
our state and our region are increasingly places where languages
other than English are useful. Our students, as adults living in
the 21st century, will need to be competent in a language
other than English in order to live and work in a global society.
Goal Six: Students will develop problem-solving skills, creative-thinking
skills, and language-learning strategies.
These three goals are additional dimensions of language learning
and may ultimately be as important in students' adult life as the
goals dealing with communication and cultural understanding.
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