WORLD LANGUAGE

  • These courses can be used to meet your 2.0 Arts & Humanities credit requirement.

    The WCASD offers students the opportunity to enroll in one of five world languages:

    French 1, French 2, French 3 Honors, French 4 Honors, French 5 Accelerated Honors, AP French
    German 1, German 2, German 3 Honors, German 4 Honors, AP German
    Italian 1, Italian 2, Italian 3 Honors, Italian 4 Honors, AP Italian
    Latin 1, Latin 2, Latin 3 Honors, Latin 4 Honors, AP Latin
    Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Spanish 3 Honors, Spanish 4 Honors, Spanish 5 Accelerated Honors, AP Spanish

    Students are encouraged to study a language for at least three consecutive years.  Students who continue their language studies into advanced levels will have the opportunity to receive college credit through the AP Exam and apply for the PA Seal of Biliteracy.

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    Level Indicators: Derived from American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

    By the end of Level 1, students can expect to be able to:

    • Communicate basic information through memorized phrases using a limited vocabulary;
    • Understand basic expressions and keywords when listening to native speakers at a slowed speech 
         rate;
    • Understand a limited amount of information in predictable texts.

    By the end of Level 2, students can expect to be able to:

    • Communicate short messages on familiar everyday topics using some strings of sentences and many
        memorized and learned phrases;
    • Understand key words, cognates, and phrases across a range of texts;
    • Understand short texts that convey basic information from sentence-length speech. 

    By the end of Level 3, students can expect to be able to:

    • Communicate about personal information, basic needs, and common everyday contexts in strings of
         sentences;
    • Ask and answer questions with some difficulty;
    • Understand some information from simple connected texts and sentence-length speech;
    • Write using short and simple sentences, often with repetitive structure, with basic word order and
         vocabulary. 

    By the end of Level 4, students can expect to be able to:

    • Describe, explain and compare using basic sentence structures and verb forms in discrete sentences
         and/or questions;
    • Communicate in social situations by using connected strings of sentences, high-frequency words and 
         simple grammatical structures.
    • Ask and answer questions with some detail about themselves and their immediate environment.
    • Understand short, non-complex texts and simple sentence-length speech with a few misunderstandings.

    By the end of Level 5*, students can expect to be able to:

    • Communicate in situations that require an exchange of information;
    • Narrate and describe in all major time frames using connected discourse of paragraph length, but not
        all the time.
    • Understand, with ease and confidence, simple sentence-length speech and short, non-complex texts.
    • Write compositions and simple summaries by narrating and describing in different time frames, often
        but not always, of paragraph length.

    By the end of the AP level, students can expect to be able to:

    • Communicate in a variety of situations by narrating and describing the major time frames of past,
         present, and future in paragraph-length discourse with some control of aspect.
    • Speak and write by combining and linking sentences into connected discourse of paragraph length.
    • Understand the main facts and some supporting details in short texts.
    • Narrate and describe in the major time frames with some control.