Peachtown’s vision and educational goals
are promoted in foreign language studies by implementing a tailored
curriculum that fits each individual student’s need regardless of his/her prior
foreign language experience. All students learn and share the same culturally
rich curriculum, which is designed to
simultaneously learn two languages. As
students learn together at their own pace, they come to appreciate each other’s
different levels, while strengthening their command of their new language
skills.
The curriculum encompasses textbook learning, conversational
skills and video programs, and is also designed to expose students to languages
through cooking, dancing, acting and singing:
to immerse students in an authentic cultural context.
All of the course work emphasizes oral communication and
phonetic awareness of each language through communicative activities that are scaled
from easier to more challenging. Grammar, spelling and punctuation are
presented in scaffolds and manageable chunks in order to help students express
themselves more clearly and correctly by internalizing patterns and learning to
use them for self-expression, which fosters the development of accurate
language habits.
