Sixth grade Curriculum - Foreign Language

Sixth Grade Curriculum - Foreign Language

Ok, parents, by now , the sixth grade year, you have probably considered  adding a foreign language to your child's homeschool curriculum. Most high school and university curricula require a foreign language as part of graduation requirements. Because elementary school is a very general course of study it is often not where foreign language study is started. Now your student is in middle school and it is time to start the second language study. First, you should consider what language your child will learn. If there are family ties to a language other than English then your choice may be easy. If not, then the choice might be made with consideration to what foreign language the parents have studied. Consider that some courses of study will allow Latin as the second language, especially if your child is aiming toward a medical field. Another language that is becoming more accepted is American Sign Language. Some high school and university courses of study will accept ASL as a second language because it behaves like a language different from English. ASL has grammatical and syntactical differences from English. Before beginning ASL as a second language, check with the programs your child is most likely to enter later on to see if it will be accepted as a language credit. Sometimes learning the grammar of another language such as one of the Romance languages helps children who are having difficulty with grammar in English. Finally, remember that it is never too early to undertake the learning of a second language so get started!