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Reply to "Foreign language - what happens if you skip it for 1 year?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm finding that my kid, who took French 1A/B in 6th, needed a lot of support at home to effectively learn the langauge. It was not enough to do in-class work; she needed to do 20-30 mins a night of practice because there were weekly quizzes and the content moved fairly fast. She never would have known this if I had not helped her, as there was almost no HW in elementary school and HW was not assigned very frequently in French itself. We had to sit down and practice, often using external websites. I feel like MCPS need to help 6th graders learn how to learn foreign languages, especially since they are courses that will appear on their HS transcripts and becuase all the knowledge builds on itself.[/quote] Well that’s a different issue - and true in my kids’ experience, too. They both earned the seal of biliteracy by graduation and yet were placed into low-intermediate spanish in college via placement tests. [/quote]
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