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The SLA curriculum consists of a first-year series (101-104), a second-year series (201-204), and, for some languages, advanced reading and conversation classes (300 series).
Our Standard Classes meet twice per week in two 1½ hour sessions and run for ten weeks, for a total of 30 hours of classroom instruction. Mini Classes meet once per week for 1½ hour. Like Standard Classes, Mini Classes run for 10 weeks, for a total of 15 hours of instruction.
Learn more about our foreign language courses.
The Modern Languages curriculum is designed to result in broad and well-grounded linguistic proficiency. Our program includes instructions in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. In the first-year sequence, students learn the core structural elements of the language and gradually build up a working vocabulary of its most common words and expressions. All four language skills – listening, speaking, reading, and writing – are taught simultaneously and from the outset. The second-year sequence, in which students hone their conversational skills and broaden their vocabularies, focuses on review, reinforcement, and expansion. While this model may vary for non-Indo-European languages such as Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese, the basic idea of foundational learning remains the same for all languages: the first year lays the groundwork, the second and third years build on and expand that base.
SLA instructors use communicative teaching methods. Teachers illustrate or model the language-phonetics and usage-and create scenarios simulating real-life situations in which students put the language to work for themselves. Analysis-written paradigms and explanations-follows, and is always subordinate to practical application. Instruction takes place in the target language; English is used sparingly in class or not at all.
SLA's foreign-language instructors are professional teachers with extensive classroom experience who bring both linguistic and cultural expertise to the classroom. Currently, 95% are native speakers, and all hold graduate degrees in the language and literature they teach or have completed post-graduate coursework and/or specialized training relevant to the teaching of foreign languages
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