Feb 21 2011

1. Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School Red Deer, AB FRENCH GERMAN JAPANESE SPANISH

6. Relevant learning tasks How do you learn? Communicative oral activities Interactive Activities Reading texts Techno: Twitter, Facebook, Wiki, Blogs Viewing

7. Academic Reasons “I enjoy learning it” “I’m good at it” “I find it easy” “I like learning a language with a different writing system.” Personal Interest & Relationships “I want to be able to speak to my grandparents.” “I want to travel there.” Career Reasons “It might be useful when I get a job” “Great skill to have in life” “Can help in a future career path” Why do our students learn a second language?

10. More creative problem solvers

12. More understanding of your first language

13. More prevention against dementia as you age!compassionate More understanding of your first language

14. Monolingualism will not serve the next generation well. It implies inflexibility and that others should always be prepared. Only knowing English makes you dependent on the linguistic competence and goodwill of others. Nuffield Languages Inquiry 2000 - UK

15. “If you speak to a man in a language he understands, you speak to his head. If you speak to a man in his own language, you speak to his heart.” Nelson Mandela 2007

16. Exchange Trips Spain Japan France Germany

17. Through learning LANGUAGE we learn about culture. Through learning about CULTURE we learn respect for others.Through learning RESPECT for others we can hope for PEACE. Anonymous2008The International Year of Languages