World Languages Department

This curriculum reflects and responds to the needs and capabilities of today’s language learners. Its approach to
classroom language learning incorporates current research in second language acquisition and provides students
with the opportunity to develop listening, reading, speaking, and writing competency in Spanish. The focus is
communication, whereby students are encouraged and motivated to communicate in the target language from
the beginning, as well as develop accuracy along a continuum that begins with non-structured word phrases. A
communication-based curriculum provides students with the opportunity to hear and speak the language daily in
the classroom. This provides for a highly interactive, student-centered environment that promotes competency
in communicating in the target language.