Program Overview
At the Junior High level Louis offers French as a Second Language beginning in grade 7. In keeping with the Alberta Education mandate, and our EAP subject area requirements, all EAP students take French from grade 7 through 9.
Program Features
Junior High
FRENCH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE This program of studies aims to promote in students: • a desire to learn French for personal benefit and to develop communicative skills in French • a willingness to experiment with a second language and to participate in a variety of learning experiences in French • an acceptance and appreciation of French language learning as one of the many subject area experiences in which they engage and respect for cultural and linguistic diversity • a recognition that learning French supports and reinforces knowledge and skills acquired in other subject areas • the acquisition of learning strategies that are also applicable to English Language Arts and other subject areas and can be transferred to the acquisition of other languages • an awareness that the French language is used outside the classroom as a medium for learning and communication
French 7
French 8
French 9
Senior High
FRENCH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE The French as a Second Language (FSL) curriculum outlines the way in which learners demonstrate their acquired communicative, linguistic, cultural, intercultural and strategic competence along a language competency continuum. Students use their life experiences, knowledge, skills and attitudes as a basis for developing their second language communicative abilities for real-life purposes.
This program of studies aims to promote in students:
- a desire to learn French for personal benefit
- a desire to develop communicative skills in French
- a willingness to experiment with a second language
- a willingness to participate in a variety of learning experiences in French
- an acceptance and appreciation of French language learning as one of the many subject area experiences in which they engage
- a recognition that learning French supports and the acquisition of language learning strategies that can be transferred to the acquisition of other languages
- an awareness that the French language is used outside the classroom as a medium for learning and communication, and respect for cultural and linguistic diversity.