Language Programme 

KCIS recognizes that language development incorporates Halliday's (1985) core concepts of

• language learning

  • aims to enhance basic interpersonal communication through interaction with teachers and peers, as well as through early literacy development.

• learning through language

  • aims to equip students with the cognitive academic language skills needed to construct new meanings and knowledge of the world.

• learning about language

  • aims to empower students' metalinguistic awareness to cultivate an understanding of the relationship between language and meaning and how language works across the curriculum, often through literary analysis and critical literacy.

The following is an overview of language courses offered at KCIS for Grade 7 to 10 and an articulation of phase placements/honors placement. To meet the language requirements outlined in Language and Learning in IB Programmes (2011), all students will either fulfill two different language and literature course tracks or one language and literature course track and one language acquisition course track

• English as a subject is taught through

  • English Language Acquisition - Subject group 2

  • English Language and Literature - Subject group 1

• Chinese (Mother Tongue) is taught through

  • Chinese Language Acquisition - Subject group 2

  • Chinese Language and Literature - Subject group 1

All KCIS students are required to take Chinese Language (either Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) or Chinese Language & Literature (CLL), swimming classes, as well as participate in the required exploration activities in each grade level.