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Leuven (The Brussels Morning Newspaper): Schools can now create their very own programs, mixing languages with topics like Latin and science. Director Frank Baeyens desires college students to be taught Arabic for cultural understanding, however discovering academics is hard.
With the adjustments in secondary training colleges that concentrate on “trendy languages” now have extra freedom to form their programs. They nonetheless must deal with language research however they’ll additionally embrace some hours for topics like Latin, economics, science, or math, based mostly on what they wish to deal with or what their college students are keen on. This permits colleges to regulate how a lot time they spend on these topics to create a extra balanced or specialised training that matches their objectives.
How are colleges leveraging flexibility to boost language Education?
Schools are additionally given a particular variety of hours that they’ll use nevertheless they need which supplies them extra freedom to create their packages. This flexibility helps colleges to make studying paths that match the pursuits and desires of their college students. For instance, a pupil would possibly resolve to focus lots on languages whereas additionally taking a primary class in economics or science. This strategy creates a extra customized and attention-grabbing studying expertise that will get them prepared for various alternatives sooner or later.
Director Frank Baeyens explains that they wish to problem college students with a language that’s completely different from these within the Indo-European household. The purpose isn’t for college students to talk Arabic fluently however to know its distinctive construction and tradition which may help broaden their minds. He additionally mentions that having a trainer with an Arabic background could be precious because it permits college students who converse Arabic at residence to see somebody they’ll relate to in place, which is vital since there aren’t many academics with various backgrounds proper now.
It has been mentioned that the umbrella organizations aren’t conscious of another colleges that train Arabic. Some Catholic colleges have taught Korean or Swedish earlier than. Every week earlier than the brand new college yr, the varsity nonetheless hadn’t discovered an Arabic trainer and posted a job opening on social media.
