今日观点!The French Program at ISNS | ISNS 法语课程解析

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as Language B option

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Students at ISNS come from many different countries and speak many different languages. There three major languages programs offered at ISNS:

English Language and Literature (Language A) ; English Language Acquisition (Language B).

Mandarin as host country language, Language and Literature, and Language Acquisition

French as Language B option

To find out the language pathways we offer and how each language is taught through PYP to DP years. This week, we interviewed the Head of Department for the world language, Martine Lusignan to give us a full overlook of the French Program offered at ISNS. Some of the Grade 11 students have also talked about French from their perspectives.

The French Program

ISNS offers French in MYP and DP, it starts in Grade 6. The students also have the option to join French in Grade 9 andthey might not have the same language acquisition as the ones started in G6. However, by the end of the program, they will be able to have conversations in French.

Phase one

In the French program, there are two major components. The first one is language acquisition and the second one is culture. When students are starting in Grade 6, they don"t know the language yet and we call that phase one.

Phase two & Phase three

As they"re learning French from grade 6to grade 10, they usually move from phase one to phase two then to phase three, each phase takes approximately two years.

The standard level or the high standard level

By the time our studentsstart DP, they are usually ready to start DP in French B. French B is offered in two different levels: the standard level or the high standard level. Usually, DP program students at ISNS are learning the standard level.

Phase four

Currently our Grade11students are in their phase four, theycan communicate in French, read and write pretty much anything in French. If students start French in Grade 9, they will probably be in the beginner level. These students will completephase two by the end of Grade 12.

French is fun

The connection between MYP and DP is a very clear progression

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We are looking at the topics, the competencies, the skills and the content.

Examples for you

to understand

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The topics in grade six, students will start learning about daily life conversation and interactions such as presenting yourself and talking about your daily life. As they gradually learn more from Grade 8 to 10, they start learning about things that are more complex and abstract.

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In Grade 10, studentslearn about the international French culture. Theywill read a book called “Le petit prince (The little prince)” and they will learn to talk about their own life in the future and the past.

In terms of content

Student starts to learn French with simple sentences. As we know French is complex, and the first thing that students need to know is vocabulary and the present tense. As they are becoming more and more confident with the vocabulary, they will learn the basic sentence structure.They start to go deeper into the grammar. Verb conjugation and sentence structure are the things we focus on throughout the entire program. It is just the nature of the French language.

In terms of competencies

Students are assessed in MYP on four different competencies:two are receptive and two are productive. They will produce written and oral text and they will also read and listen. Then when the four competencies are mastered, students will move on to DP and add one more competency, which is interactive. That is their final oral assessment, which is a conversation of10-15 minutes with the teacher.

Each year grade 6 to grade 10 students are workingactively and explicitly on the same Approaches to learning (ATLs) to deepen their skills. From Grade6to 10 for example,we work on communicationas the first ATL of the year. After that, every year they get better at itthroughout the French program in MYP, students will learn to develop all their ATL skills, which are research skills, thinking skills, self-management skills, communication skills and social skills. Students learn about the French community

which is an international community. They learn to be curious and interested in other cultures. This is such an important part of the IB program at ISNS.

We have a very vibrant but small French program community. Students feel safe and they are here to engage with the teacher and other students. They develop their social skills, their communication skills but more than that they developed this ideathat we live in a global world, and they are becoming more open-minded citizens.

“Tips to learn French

“To learn French, one of the first thingsis to be interested in the language. We usually learn French through oral, it would be to get familiar with the sounds, listening to music and maybe listening to people speaking French. Another thing is try to readand be curious about the words that you can pick upfrom another language or a sentence structure. I think that learning French is all about being curious and being interested in something that you don"t know.”

--Martine Lusignan

World Language Department Head

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法语

作为语言B选项

ISNS的学生来自不同的国家，说着不同的语言。ISNS提供三种主要的语言课程:

英语语言文学课程(语言A)；英语语言习得课程(语言B)

中文作为东道国语言；中文语言文学课程，中文语言习得课程

法语作为语言B选项

为了了解我们提供的递进式语言课程，以及从PYP到DP每种语言是怎么教授的。本周，我们采访了世界语言课程的负责人Martine Lusignan，让我们全面了解ISNS提供的法语课程。一些11年级的学生也从他们的角度发表了他们对法语课的看法。

你了解法语课程吗？

ISNS在 MYP 和 DP 从六年级开始提供法语课程。学生们也可以选择在九年级加入法语，他们和从六年级就开始的语言习得班会不同。但在毕业的时候，学生们也将可以用法语进行对话。

阶段一

我们的法语课程有两个主要组成部分：第一个是语言习得；第二个是文化。当学生开始六年级法语时，他们对法语是完全不懂的，我们称之为第一阶段。

阶段二 & 阶段三

从六年级到十年级，学习法语通常从第一阶段移动到第二阶段再到第三阶段， 每个阶段大约需要两年的时间。

标准级别或高标准级别

当我们的学生进入到 DP 时，他们通常已经准备好学习DP法语 B了。法语 B 提供两个不同级别：标准级别或最高标准级别。通常 ISNS 的 DP 项目学生正在学习标准水平。

阶段四

目前，我们 11 年级的学生处于第四阶段，他们可以用法语交流，几乎可以用法语阅读和写作任何东西。如果学生在 9 年级开始学习法语，他们可能处于初级水平。他们将在 12 年级结束时完成第二阶段。

法语很有趣

MYP 和 DP 之间的联系非常明确

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我们注重研究主题、能力、技能和内容。

举些例子

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例如六年级的话题，MYP学生将开始学习日常生活对话和互动，如展示自己和谈论你的日常生活。随着他们从 8 年级到 10 年级逐渐学得更多，他们开始学习更复杂和抽象的事物。

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例如，在 10 年级，学生学习国际法国文化。他们会读一本叫做《Le petit prince（小王子）》的书，他们会学会谈论自己未来和过去的生活。

在内容方面

学生们从简单的句子开始学习法语。众所周知，法语很复杂，学生首先需要知道的是词汇和现在时。随着他们对词汇越来越有信心，他们学习了基本的句子结构。他们开始更深入地学习语法。动词变位和句子结构是我们在整个课程中关注的重点。这也是法语的本质。

在能力方面

学生在 MYP 中会针对四种能力进行评估。两个是接受的，两个是创作的。他们创作书面和口头文本，他们也会有阅读和听力。然后当掌握了这四种能力后，学生们会继续在DP学习，他们还会增加一种互动能力。这是他们的最终口头评估，将与老师进行 10-15 分钟的对话。

每年 6 年级到 10 年级的学生都在积极和明确地使用相同的学习方法 (ATL) 来加深他们的技能。例如，从 6 年级到 10 年级，我们将沟通技巧作为的第一个 重点。之后，在整个 MYP 的法语课程中，学生每年都会在这方面做得更好，学生将学习发展他们所有的 ATL 技能，即研究技能、思维技能、自我管理技能、沟通技能和社交技能。学生在了解法语社区是一个国际社会时，他们学会对其他文化感到好奇和感兴趣。这是 ISNS IB 项目的重要组成部分。

我们有一个充满活力但规模很小的法语项目社区。学生感到安全，他们在这里与老师和其他学生尽情互动。他们发展了社交技能和沟通技巧，但更重要的是，学生们形成了我们生活在全球化世界中的观念，也正在成为思想更加开放的公民。

“学习法语妙招

“学习法语，我认为首先要对这门语言感兴趣。我们通常通过口语学习法语，就是熟悉声音，听音乐，还有去听人们说法语。我要说的另一件事是尝试阅读并对您可以从另一种语言或句子结构中学到的单词感到好奇。我认为学习法语就是要对你不知道的事物保持好奇和兴趣。”

--Martine Lusignan

世界语言课程负责人