--- title: "Spanish ab initio" site: "Scotch Global Connect" url: "https://global.scotch.wa.edu.au/connect/courses/ibdp-spanish-ab-intio" description: "Spanish ab initio provides students with the necessary skills and intercultural understanding to enable them to communicate successfully in an environment where the language studied is spoken." published: "2023-10-02" updated: "2024-04-10" --- # Spanish ab initio Spanish ab initio provides students with the necessary skills and intercultural understanding to enable them to communicate successfully in an environment where the language studied is spoken. Path: Courses › Spanish ab initio ## Spanish ab initio SL Group 2 – Language acquisition ## Language acquisition consists of two modern language courses — language ab initio and language B — designed to provide students with the necessary skills and intercultural understanding to enable them to communicate successfully in an environment where the language studied is spoken. Offered at SL only, language ab initio is a language acquisition course designed for students with no previous experience in — or very little exposure to — the target language. Language ab initio students develop their receptive, productive and interactive skills while learning to communicate in the target language in familiar and unfamiliar contexts. Students develop the ability to communicate through the study of language, themes and texts. There are five prescribed themes: identities, experiences, human ingenuity, social organisation and sharing the planet. While the themes are common to both language ab initio and language B, the language ab initio syllabus additionally prescribes four topics for each of the five themes, for a total of 20 topics that must be addressed over the two years of the course. ## Course aims ### [Spanish ab initio](https://global.scotch.wa.edu.au/connect/schedule/aims-spanish-ab-initio) | Develop international-mindedness. | |---| | Enable students to communicate in a rangeof contexts. | | Encourage an appreciation of diverse cultures. | | Understand how languages relate to cultures. | | Develop awareness of how language can relateto other areas. | | Provide opportunities for intellectual engagement and the development of critical- and creative-thinking skills. | | Provide a basis for further study, work and leisure through the use of an additional language. | | Foster curiosity, creativity and a lifelong enjoymentof language learning. | ## Assessment requirements ### [Spanish ab initio](https://global.scotch.wa.edu.au/connect/schedule/assessment-spanish-ab-initio) | **Standard level** | **Weighting** | **Type** | **Description** | |---|---|---|---| | Individual oral | 25% | Internal | For the individual oral internal assessment, the stimulus at language ab initio SL is a visual image that is clearly relevant to one (or more) of the themes of the course. | | Examination | 25% | External | Paper 1 There are two written tasks that ask the candidate to choose one topic from three options to write about. | | Examination | 50% | External | Paper 2 This is a two-part paper assessing in equal measure the student's ability to listen and read by responding to questions. | | | | | | ## Our IBDP courses ### IBDP subject groups ### Group 1 ### Group 2 ### Group 3 ### Group 4 ### Group 5 ### Group 6 ### Core ### Course level ### Standard level ### Higher level ### [Year 7 English](https://global.scotch.wa.edu.au/connect/courses/year-7-english) ### IBDP subject groups ### 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