Introduction

Learning Languages: A Guide for New Zealand Schools is intended for principals, boards of trustees, senior managers, and key teachers responsible for language education. It provides information to help schools develop clear policy for language education, and discusses a range of principles and practices for teaching and learning languages. It will help schools and teachers to gain a better understanding of the place of languages within the curriculum, within the community, and within society.

Summary

• This site aims to help schools to develop their policies and programmes for teaching and learning languages other than the language of instruction.



• Learning languages is an important part of the school curriculum.



• New Zealand schools offer a range of languages.



• The Ministry of Education supports a range of language-learning programmes.

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