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The World Language program at Gain Ville places emphasis on the context and purpose of communication. Communicative-based instruction revolves around what takes place in the learning environment. We strive to prepare learners for authentic language use in the real world through understanding its expressed cultural forms in such domains as the arts, culinary arts, music, and moving images. We believe that students learn best when they are enthusiastically engaged in meaningful, motivating, and cognitively challenging activities that are based in real-life contexts specially when it communicates meaning beyond classroom walls.
Based on national standards and those in New Jersey, the approach used in our world language program is to recognize three communication modes that place primary emphasis on the context and purpose of the communication:
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Interpretive Mode: The ability to understand and interpret within the appropriate cultural context spoken and written communication. Examples of “one way” reading or listening include the cultural interpretation of texts, movies, radio and television broadcasts, and speeches. Interpretation differs from comprehension because it implies the ability to read or listen “between the lines”.
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Interpersonal Mode: The ability to engage in direct oral and/or written communication. Examples involving “two-way” interactive communication are conversing face-to-face, or exchanging personal letters or e-mail messages.
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Presentational Mode: The ability to present, through oral and/or written communication information, concepts and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers with whom there is no immediate personal contact. Examples of this “one-to-many” mode of communication are making a presentation to a group or writing an article for the local or school newspaper.
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