The examples shown are neither prescriptive nor exhaustive. The categories are described below, and the table that follows provides examples of text types for each category. The guiding principle for using texts is to develop students’ receptive, productive and interactive skills in the target language by focusing their attention on the ways in which good communicators consider the audience, context and purpose of what they want to say or write in the process of choosing and developing an appropriate text type to convey a message. Foster curiosity, creativity and a lifelong enjoyment of language learning.įor the purposes of teaching and learning in a language acquisition course, the language ab initio syllabus organizes written, visual, audio and audio-visual texts into three broad categories: personal, professional and mass media texts. Provide students with a basis for further study, work and leisure through the use of an additionalĨ. Intellectual engagement and the development of critical- and creative-thinking skills.ħ. Provide students, through language learning and the process of inquiry, with opportunities for
Develop students’ awareness of the importance of language in relation to other areas of knowledge.Ħ. Develop students’ understanding of the relationship between the languages and cultures with whichĥ. Of a variety of perspectives of people from diverse cultures.Ĥ. Encourage, through the study of texts and through social interaction, an awareness and appreciation Enable students to communicate in the language they have studied in a range of contexts and for aģ. Develop international-mindedness through the study of languages, cultures, and ideas and issues ofĢ. The aims of Spanish ab initio course are to:ġ. Students learn to communicate in the target language in familiar and unfamiliar contexts.
Target language, or for those students with very limited previous exposure and it is offered at SL only.Īt the language ab initio level, a student develops receptive, productive and interactive communicative Language ab initio is a language acquisition course designed for students with no prior experience of the
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