Essential and Driving Questions
Essential Questions:
How does one best use a foreign language?
Why is it important to immerse yourself in a foreign culture?
Why is studying a foreign language important?
Why is it important to immerse yourself in a foreign culture?
Why is studying a foreign language important?
Driving Questions:
How does one best learn and retain a foreign language?
What are the benefits of studying a foreign language? (brain research, marketability, careers, college acceptance, global awareness)
Where can people go to experience authentic culture and language immersion?
What’s offered within our community to experience language and culture?
What types of experiences are lacking within our school/community to practice speaking Spanish?
What percentage of our community (District 41) is Spanish speaking?
- How long does it take to lose a foreign language or forget?
- What is the average amount of time to achieve fluency?
- Why do some households speak a foreign language?
- What types of languages do schools offer?
- What’s a fun way to retain languages?
- What motivates people to keep a language?
- What can you do to keep your Spanish knowledge?
- How have other people kept their language abilities in the past?
- Why do people stop taking languages?
- Why do people keep taking a foreign language in high school?
- What percentage of people who took a foreign language in school still use it later in life?
- What are key attributes to pursuing the language you are learning?
- What percent of people retain their language skills?
- What percent of people in America use Rosetta Stone?
What are the benefits of studying a foreign language? (brain research, marketability, careers, college acceptance, global awareness)
- Is it beneficial to learn a foreign language?
- How could the study of foreign language help you later in life?
- Why are people required to pick a foreign language?
- What jobs require knowledge of a foreign language?
- Why do people use/take other languages?
- Why should someone study a language?
- Why is learning different languages important?
- What percent of people are bilingual?
Where can people go to experience authentic culture and language immersion?
- How many people continue to speak foreign language outside of school?
- Who are people you can speak with outside of school?
- How can you apply different languages to real life?
- What percent of people actually travel to different countries?
What’s offered within our community to experience language and culture?
- What is the most taken language in high school?
- Where can we use different foreign languages outside of school?
- How do most people lose a foreign language?
- When do you have a chance to use your foreign language skills?
- From what sources can people learn languages?
- How can we prevent losing knowledge we have learned?
What types of experiences are lacking within our school/community to practice speaking Spanish?
What percentage of our community (District 41) is Spanish speaking?
- How many people speak another language?
- What percent of people speak more than one language?
- What are the top five most popular languages in America?
- What percent of the US speaks Spanish?