World Languages - Prince William County Public Schools

Welcome to the World Languages Website!

If you need assistance finding any information on this Web site or have any questions, please contact our office:

Carol Bass, Supervisor
bassc@pwcs.edu
Jackie Schaer, Secretary
schaergj@pwcs.edu
Telephone: 703.791.8706, Fax: 703.831.8761

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Battlefield HS French Honor Society

Posted on 12/27/2016

French Honor Society Students at Battlefield HS has "adopted" the head start kids...

Brentsville District High School,sent students to Latin Convention

Posted on 12/27/2016

Brentsville District High School,sent students to Latin Convention...

Osbourn Park Students Spend the day at the VA Junior Classical League Latin Convention

Posted on 12/20/2016

Latin Students at the Virginia Junior Classical League Latin Convention...

ASL Students from Patriot HS (Blank Space Video)

Posted on 05/18/2016

Patriot ASL Club: 2016 Senior Tribute

Patriot ASL Club: 2016 Senior Tribute...

National Russian Essay Contest

Brentsville HS Students Celebrating FL Week

National Foreign Language Week

Virginia Junior Classical League Latin Convention

National French Week "La Semaine du Francais"

The AATF is pleased to announce its organization of the twelfth annual National French Week. This week-long celebration of all things French will take place in schools and communities and AATF chapters across the U.S. from November 4-10, 2016. We are asking our members and any other interested Francophones and Francophiles to take French out of the classroom and demonstrate all the reasons to learn French. Click here to see the National French Week Resolution.
L'AATF est heureuse d'annoncer l'organisation de la douzième Semaine de Français. Cette fête de tout ce qui est français aura lieu dans les écoles et dans les villes et dans les chapitres de l'AATF à travers les États-Unis du 4-10 novembre 2016. Nous demandons à nos membres et à tout Francophone intéressé de sortir le français de la salle de classe et de montrer au public toutes les bonnes raisons pour apprendre le français.

Click here to learn more about the National French Week and the American Association of Teachers of French "AATF

Students from Lake Ridge MS

ASL Club at Patriot High School

Standards of Learning for Foreign Language

The Board of Education approved the revised Foreign Language Standards of Learning. Although there is no applicable SOL test associated with foreign language instruction, the SOLs are intended to provide students with the knowledge and skills to be able to interact, within reasonable limits, with users of the language and understand their culture.

Standards of Foreign Language. ALL Languages, 2014

American Sign Language ASL 2014

ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines

Welcome to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. Here you will find the most current version of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines for Speaking, Writing, Listening, and Reading made interactive through the inclusion of glossed terms and multimedia exemplars. You can explore the Guidelines by skill or by level, listen to and read samples in English that represent abilities at each of the major proficiency levels.

Click here to download the complete text of the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines document in a PDF format.

The ACTFL Guidelines with specific annotations for Arabic and language-specific samples are available here.

Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning

PWCS World Language Program has adopted TELL (Teaching Effectiveness for Language Learning) as the guide for our expectations of instruction in all world language classrooms. World language teachers are required to have completed various professional learning activities to ensure implementation of the TELL Standards. The Virginia Department of Education has adopted TELL and aligns all of their documents and professional development to the TELL standards.
The Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning (TELL) Project is a collection of products and processes that can be used to enhance the effectiveness of world language teachers. TELL, which emanates from an understanding that student achievement is influenced more by an effective teacher than any other factor, attempts to synthesize work from the general education arena regarding those things that effective teachers do and make that information specific to the work of language teachers. The heart of the TELL Project is the Teacher Effectiveness for Language Learning Framework, which is supported by the TELL Tools.
Click here to read more about TELL

The Language Educador