World Languages

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SPCPA’s World Language Department helps students to become diverse and active citizens. The languages of French and Spanish will help students communicate with people worldwide.  Traveling abroad or in their own neighborhoods, learning world languages will help students to bridge language barriers. Throughout all levels of language learning, students will acquire listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. In accordance with SPCPA’s focus as a performing arts school, students will sing, act, and even dance their way to being a world language speaker. Students will gain knowledge through interactive games, engaging pair activities, reading, listening to native speakers on audio and visual tools, and completing authentic projects, in addition to learning about the cultural background of the French and Spanish speaking countries.

Study of a second language is not required to graduate from SPCPA.  However, it is an elective offered in order to meet college and university entrance requirements.  Minnesota state colleges and universities require a minimum of two years of the same language studied at the high school level.  Many selective colleges and universities recommend that students have three or more years of experience with the same language.

World Languages Faculty

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World Languages Curriculum

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