IB - Spanish Ab Initio

The language ab initio course is a language acquisition course for students with little or no experience of the language.

The course is organized into three themes: individual and society, leisure and work, and urban and rural environment. Each theme comprises a list of topics that provide students with opportunities to practice and explore the language and to develop intercultural understanding.

Through the development of receptive, productive and interactive skills, students develop the ability to respond and interact appropriately in a defined range of everyday situations.

Spanish Ab Initio and ToK

In group 2 there are three modern language courses: language ab initio, language B SL and language B HL.

The outcomes of each course are different, but each course is a language acquisition course that seeks to enhance intercultural understanding.

Theory of knowledge (TOK) is central to the Diploma Programme, and the relationship between TOK and group 2 is of great importance. Learning an additional language involves linguistic and metalinguistic, sociolinguistic, pragmatic and intercultural skills and competencies. Therefore, teachers are challenged to make links between TOK and group 2 courses that encourage consideration and reflection upon how these skills and competencies are acquired by the language learner and, equally, imparted by the teacher.

Spanish Ab initio and CAS

 The CAS requirement is a fundamental part of the programme and students have excellent opportunities to make links with a range of CAS activities:

• helping out with cultural projects in Middle School
• creating help materials for students no Spanish at all (a survival hand-out for Geographers going on a trip to Spain)

All the contents mentioned here are available in the students' online notebooks (OneNote).