Accredited Online High School Spanish Courses | Sterling Academy
Sterling Academy offers three years of high school Spanish courses.
In addition, middle school students may take two years of Spanish.
You can study Spanish online at Sterling Academy. Most colleges require a student to have had 2 years of a foreign language in high school before being admitted into college, and Spanish is the most popular world language that high school students choose. Our Spanish courses are available to not only full-time Sterling Academy students but also part-time students who just want to take a Spanish course online.
Why study Online High School Spanish?
Spanish is spoken by 426 million people around the world. Speaking Spanish opens the doors of communication with Spain, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. There is also a very large population of Spanish-speaking people in the United States. Business partnerships are growing between the two cultures. If our students prepare themselves by becoming bilingual, they will have a great advantage in the workforce in the future.
At Sterling Academy, we give students the opportunity to learn the language and be able to use it in real-life situations.
How Sterling Academy’s language learning approach sets us apart
Our program was developed by the well-known Middlebury College Language School. They have developed a program that uses language immersion while the courses are aligned with the national standards set by The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
Our Spanish courses focus on the most important areas of world language study: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. We use authentic video, audio, images, and texts which allow full participation and practice in the four key areas of study. Our curriculum is also centered on the cultural aspects of the Spanish World. There are many cultural assignments that make the student aware of the differences and similarities between the cultures.
Middle school students begin their introduction to Spanish with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, andn multimedia cultural presentations covering major Spanish=speaking areas in Europe and the Americas.
Students in middle school continue their introduction to Spanish with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and multimedia cultural presentations covering major Spanish-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas.
Students begin their introduction to high school Spanish with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and multimedia cultural presentations covering major Spanish-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas. (1 credit)
High school students continue their introduction to Spanish with fundamental building blocks in four key areas of foreign language study: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. Each unit consists of an ongoing adventure story, a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, cultural presentations covering major Spanish-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas. (1 credit)
In this expanding engagement with Spanish, high school students deepen their focus on four key skills in foreign language acquisition: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. In addition, students read significant works of literature in Spanish, and orally or in writing to these works. Continuing the pattern, and building on what students encountered in the first two years, each unit consists of a new vocabulary theme and grammar concept, numerous interactive games reinforcing vocabulary and grammar, reading and listening comprehension activities, speaking and writing activities, and multimedia cultural presentations covering major Spanish-speaking areas in Europe and the Americas. (1 credit)
If you would like to learn more about studying Spanish online at Sterling Academy, or any of our other foreign language courses (Chinese, French, German, or Latin), or have any other questions about Sterling Academy, fill out the form on the right and our Enrollment Counselor will contact you and answer your questions for you.
OUR COURSE OFFERINGS
We offer the following Spanish courses.
Ligia Alves is a native Spanish speaker with extensive experience teaching in the classroom. She graduated from the City University of New York, Queens College, with a B.A. in Psychology and continued to earn a Master of Arts degree in Education from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. She is certified to teach K-12 Spanish in New Jersey and in Florida.
Before going into teaching, Ms. Alves worked as a Staff Manager for AT&T. After leaving the corporate world to take care of her children, she followed her passion for teaching as a substitute teacher, and then went on to become the official Spanish teacher for The Washington Township Board of Education in New Jersey for ten years. She was instrumental in the development of the Spanish Curriculum.
