Foreign Language Program

Most schools don't introduce foreign language to students until middle school or high school. Study has shown that the younger a child learns a new language the easier they are to learn and retain the information. Also the student does better in other subjects in school. Charles E. Frame, Sr. Foundation will start students off as young as 5 years old.

Our foreign language program will be unique concept that some current universities are adapting in their current programs. We want to bring the foreign language culturally intact to the youth through technology. Our goal is for the student to learn the language in its authentic and nautral manner. The program will be structured with authentic interviews and native speakers in real and natural settings. As a class we will study not only the language but the entire culture (history, art, music, folklore, traditions, and religion).

The grammar and the cultural element of the language will be taught and learned as one. Through the actual listening, speaking, reading, and writing the students will learn how the language is actually communicated amongst that particular community of people/country.

The program will be very intense and interactive requiring a lot of participation from students. This in itself makes the program very flexible and easy to learn. One of the textbook will be created and used by students input. Each class and each year the text will be different. By the students working together on projects to create and produce visual learning aids, vocabulary words, short stories, artwork, plays, poetry, songs, pictuers, outlines, interviews with people of that language, guest speakers, research projects, create outlines, table of content, and even design the cover of the book themselves. Each student will be the credited authors of the textbook.  With this type of approach in studying a foreign language it will bring creativity to the teacher as well as the students.

There will also be other stimulating activities that the students will have a chance to participate in outside of the class such as film festivals, class trips, and immerison trips abroad to see the community, culture, and use what they have learned first hand in the classroom.

This approach to learning a foreign language is not just the proverbial structural way of learning a langugage like most of us are familiar to; but it is a more dynamic, exciting, and great way to learn a different language and retain it.

Summer Abroad - Foreign language proficiency and cultural awareness are requirements of the foreign language studies, it is an essential component for the program. Hopefully, all the students in the program will spend at least one summer abroad to assure foreign language competence. By doing this the student will be amazed at how easy their foreign language program will become.