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World Language

Department Office:
Curriculum Coordinator: Rachel Eio
617-713-5094

Secretary: LaShanda Williams
617-713-5096

Offices: 226, 212, 215
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Our Program

Brookline High School offers world language courses in Chinese, French, Japanese, Latin, and Spanish. All students studying a modern world language are grouped in a way that develops as fully as possible their communicative competency and familiarizes them with other cultures. The digital language laboratory helps students acquire greater proficiency in listening and speaking. Language lab work is considered a requirement in most of the courses.

At each level, the content of the modern language course is matched to the ability of the student to understand the spoken language, to speak it, to read a text or study a literary work, and to write the language with reasonable accuracy. All courses meet four periods a week with homework and laboratory work. Regular class attendance and participation are essential.

Our programs are designed to accommodate both those who had prior study and those who begin their study at the High School. Students with prior study are placed in classes which continue the development of their level of proficiency. They may study the language through Japanese 4 and French 5, Mandarin 6, Latin 5 and Spanish5 (if enrollment warrants). To graduate from BHS students need at least 2 years of study in a world language. Many colleges require completion of 3 years of WL prior to admission. 96% of our students are enrolled in a WL class for all four years.

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