World Language

The Nyack World Language program starts at the 6th grade level where students study either French or Spanish. At the Novice level, students are able to communicate minimally with formulaic, and rote utterances, lists and phrases. The primary objective of the Middle School program is to ensure that students reach a Novice-High proficiency level where they will be able to:

• identify the general topic and some basic information in both very familiar and everyday contexts by recognizing practiced or memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences in texts that are spoken, written, or signed.
• communicate in spontaneous spoken, written, or signed conversations on both very familiar and everyday topics, using a variety of practiced or memorized words, phrases, simple sentences, and questions.
• present information on both very familiar and everyday topics using a variety of practiced or memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences through spoken, written, or signed language
• identify products and practices to help them understand perspectives in their own culture and other cultures.
• interact at a survival level in some familiar everyday contexts.  

Students are expected to take the Checkpoint A FLACS Assessment at the end of their 8th grade year, which grants them one unit of credit in order to complete the world language requirement for the Regents diploma. Throughout their course of study students foster their three modes of communication (Interpretive, Interpersonal, Presentational)  and expand their language proficiency through a variety of themes and topics:

Nyack Middle School Course Descriptions