“The courses offer a broad range of texts, and students grow to appreciate a language’s complexity, wealth and subtleties in a variety of contexts. Students take their studies in a language in which they are academically competent.

Through each course, students are able to develop:

• a personal appreciation of language and literature

• critical-thinking skills in their interaction with a range of texts from different periods, styles, text-types and literacy forms

• an understanding of the formal, stylistic and aesthetic qualities of texts

• strong powers of expression, both written and oral

• an appreciation of cultural differences in perspective

• an understanding of how language challenges and sustains ways of thinking.

Through studies in language and literature, the DP aims to develop a student's lifelong interest in language and literature, and a love for the richness of human expression.”

Source: https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/curriculum/language-and-literature/ 

In Group 1, DISV offers students to study English and German as Language A - run by our English and German Faculties, yet we strongly encourage students to learn their native language to maintain their language skills and cultural identity. 

DISV has a strong PTL (Privately Taught Languages) programme with teachers of a large number of languages who have experience of teaching the Diploma programme, and a PTL Coordinator, who can help to organize lessons. Since these classes are very small (sometimes only 1 student), they are only available through private tuition (PTL with an additional fee). 

We commonly have students studying the languages below, yet it may also be possible to help find suitable teachers for additional languages:  Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.