IB Chinese Mandarin AB SL1 is year one of a two-year course of study. Offered at SL only, language ab initio (AB) is a language acquisition course designed for students with limited exposure to the target language. The curriculum is organized around five prescribed themes with which the students engage through written, audio, visual and audio-visual texts. Students develop receptive, productive, and interactive skills while learning to communicate in the target language. Focus is on five themes: identities, experiences, human ingenuity, social organization and sharing the planet. 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.
Prerequisites
Chinese Mandarin Level IV and teacher recommendation. Open to all Grade 11 W-L students who meet the prerequisites.
This course is year 1 of a two-year sequence and prepares students for the required AB Standard Level IB assessments at the end of the course of study. Students will complete an Internal Assessment and sit for External Assessments (papers/exams). This IB course is weighted by applying an additional 1.0 quality point value assigned to the final grade upon completion of the course.