What is the right class for me?
What is the right class for my child?
Jane Trotter
Coordinator
Institute of World Languages
Building K
Room 151
(630) 942-2849
What is the right class for my child?French, German, Italian and Spanish classes are available for pre-school through eighth grade students. Each class meets once a week for 10 weeks per quarter and follows the college calendar. The “Discover Program” is an educational, fun and exciting way to introduce pre-school to first-grade students to another language. The Elementary Program offers language study for second, third and fourth graders, and students in fifth through eighth grades attain proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Students with elementary level reading skills who have graduated from our Discover Program or are just beginning language study develop listening, speaking and reading skills in Arabic, Chinese, French, German and Spanish. Students may choose to complete one or more years of study in each language before moving on to a grammar-based approach.
Upper elementary or middle school students can take French Is Fun, German Is Fun, Italian Is Fun or Spanish Is Fun. These six-semester programs tackle comprehensive language study including grammar, providing students with the equivalent of one year of high school study. These courses may assist students in more advanced placement upon entering high school.
High school students are now eligible to enroll in beginning adult conversation classes in one of 13 different languages. Whether as a supplement to current high school language study or as an introduction to a new language, classes in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish are now available to teens each fall, winter and spring quarter.
