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WORLD LANGUAGES The courses described in this section are designed to help students learn to communicate effectively in a world language. Major emphasis is placed on developing students’ ability to comprehend what they hear and read and to express their thoughts orally and in writing. In addition to developing their communication skills, students will develop an awareness of and appreciation for other cultures. The world languages instructional program is designed to help students: • Understand an educated fluent speaker conversing about topics of general interest and speaking in such media as news broadcasts, plays, movies, and telecasts. • Speak fluently and comprehensibly on a range of topics. • Understand directly, without translating, the content of nontechnical writing, selected works of literature, and articles of general interest from periodicals. • Write comprehensibly for formal and informal purposes. • Develop awareness of the cultures of people speaking the world languages. At the elementary level, world languages instruction is given in magnet schools in the Spanish Language Immersion Magnets (SLIM) and the French Language Immersion Magnet (FLIM). At the secondary level, the modern world languages offered are Filipino, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. Latin is offered to students interested in the study of a classical language. American Sign Language also meets the high school graduation requirement for world languages and introduces the basic structure of the language and development of its use within the deaf culture. World Languages offerings vary from school to school in response to student interest, staff resources, and other factors. In all cases, however, curriculum and instruction are aligned with the foreign language standards adopted by the California Department of Education in January 2019 (found in this PDF document www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/wlstandards.pdf ), as well as the 2020 Foreign Language Framework for California Public Schools. See www.cde.ca.gov/ci/fl/cf/. INDEPENDENT WORLD LANGUAGE SCHOOLS Graduation credit may be granted for district-approved coursework taken at an independent world language school (IWLS) outside the regular school day (e.g., Saturday school) or school year (i.e., summer school), even if the school is not WASC accredited, provided that the student notifies the principal in advance (see Administrative Procedure 4770.C.12.a(3)). A current list of the independent world languages schools and approved courses may be found in Part III. The course descriptions in this section are arranged alphabetically by language. The following are SDUSD World Languages district approved courses: • American Sign Language (ASL) • • Hebrew (Hebrew IWLS schools only.) • Filipino • • Japanese • French • • Latin • German WL-1 • Mandarin Chinese (including AP Chinese Language and Culture) • Portuguese • Spanish ELD–2 World Languages 2020-2021 The following middle school level course American Sign Language 5-6 (P) • 2382, 2383 descriptions are arranged alphabetically. Grade level: 7–12 Prerequisites: American Sign Language 3-4 with a American Sign Language 1-2 (P) • 2384, 2385 grade of C or higher or equivalent Grade level: 7–12 Course duration: One year Prerequisites: None Graduation credit: World Language Course duration: One year UC subject area satisfied: e - Language Other than Graduation credit: World Language English UC subject area satisfied: e - Language Other than English COURSE DESCRIPTION This course continues instruction begun in American COURSE DESCRIPTION Sign Language 3-4 and provides a third year of This introductory course, open to all students who American Sign Language study. Students taking this wish to learn American Sign Language, is intended to course will be exposed to deaf culture, general develop limited facility in the basic structure and use of interpreting techniques, reverse interpreting, and the language. Study of the deaf culture will also be community resources for the deaf. Students meet and included so that students will have knowledge of the communicate with deaf individuals, and work on finger values, beliefs, behaviors, and common world view spelling speed and sign fluency. Students who found among deaf people. successfully pass this course will possess the conversational skills necessary to enter an interpreter- BASIC INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS training program. Hills, Learning American Sign Language, Prentice Hall, 2004. Filipino 1-2 (P) • 2395, 2396 Grade level: 7–12 American Sign Language 3-4 (P) • 2386, 2387 Prerequisites: None Grade level: 8–12 Course duration: One year Prerequisites: American Sign Language 1-2 with a Graduation credit: World Language grade of C or higher; recommendation of teacher UC subject area satisfied: e - Language Other than and/or counselor English Course duration: One year Graduation credit: World Language COURSE DESCRIPTION This functions-based, introductory course is open to all UC subject area satisfied: e - Language Other than students who wish to begin the study of Filipino English language and cultures. It is intended to develop novice to mid-novice oral-language proficiency as well as COURSE DESCRIPTION limited facility in reading and writing. Major emphasis This course is designed for students who have is on the development of listening and speaking successfully completed American Sign Language 1-2. It abilities at the novice level with reasonably accurate is a continuation of the introductory course and is pronunciation and intonation. Programmed instruction intended to extend students’ limited facility in the and technology, under the direction of the Filipino major skills. teacher, may be used to facilitate instruction and language practice. The course is not designed for BASIC INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS students who are fluent or nearly fluent in Filipino as Lentz, Signing Naturally Curriculum, Level 2, Dawn evidenced by an informal primary language Sign Press, 1997. assessment or other language assessments. It is recommended that fluent or nearly fluent students enroll in a higher-level Filipino course. 3 World Languages 2020-2021 BASIC INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS UC subject area satisfied: e - Language Other than Romero, Learn Filipino: Book One, Magsimba Press, English 2008. COURSE DESCRIPTION Sining ng Wika at Pagbasa, Phoenix, 2006. This functions-based course is designed for students World Language Curriculum Guide for Filipino 1-2, who have successfully completed Filipino 3-4. It is San Diego Unified School District, 2009. intended to move students’ oral proficiency to the intermediate level and to develop both reading comprehension and writing accuracy at that level. As Filipino 3-4 (P) • 2397, 2398 the need for accuracy increases, grammar instruction Grade level: 8–12 becomes more significant. Programmed instruction Prerequisites: Filipino 1-2 with a grade of C or higher; and technology, under the direction of the Filipino recommendation of teacher teacher, may be used to facilitate instruction and Course duration: One year language practice. This course may meet the needs of Graduation credit: World Language Filipino-speaking students whose literacy skills are not UC subject area satisfied: e - Language Other than fully present. English BASIC INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS COURSE DESCRIPTION Romero, Learn Filipino: Book Two, Magsimba, 2008. This functions-based course is designed for students Ugnayan 4: Aklat sa Wika at Pagbasa, Vibal, 2001. who have successfully completed Filipino 1-2. It is a World Language Curriculum Guide for Filipino 5-6, continuation of the introductory course and is San Diego Unified School District, 2010. intended to consolidate students’ listening and speaking skills at the mid-novice level, with bridging opportunities to high novice. Reading receives French 1-2 (P) • 2001, 2002 increased attention, although the primary emphasis Grade level: 7–12 remains the development of oral-language proficiency. Prerequisites: None Programmed instruction and technology, under the direction of the Filipino teacher, may be used to Course duration: One year facilitate instruction and language practice. The course Graduation credit: World Language is not designed for students who are fluent or nearly UC subject area satisfied: e - Language Other than fluent in Filipino as evidenced by an informal primary English language assessment or other language assessments. It Notes: Online Course Equivalent: EDG FRN I A-B (P) is recommended that fluent or nearly fluent students 4771,4772 enroll in a higher-level Filipino course if offered. COURSE DESCRIPTION BASIC INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS This functions-based, introductory course is open to all Romero, Learn Filipino: Book One, Magsimba, 2008. students who wish to begin the study of French Ugnayan 3: Aklat sa Wika at Pagbasa, Vibal, 2001. language and cultures. It is intended to develop novice to mid-novice oral-language proficiency as well as World Language Curriculum Guide for Filipino 3-4, limited facility in reading and writing. Major emphasis San Diego Unified School District, 2010. is on the development of listening and speaking abilities at the novice level with reasonably accurate Filipino 5-6 (P) • 2403, 2404 pronunciation and intonation. Programmed instruction and technology, under the direction of the French Grade level: 7–12 teacher, may be used to facilitate instruction and Prerequisites: Filipino 3-4 with a grade of C or higher; language practice. The course is not designed for recommendation of teacher students who