Spain Primero de Primaria: First Foreign Language (Usually English)

This information pertains to the curriculum under the LOMLOE framework. The First Foreign Language (Primera Lengua Extranjera), usually English, in Primero de Primaria (first grade of primary school) focuses on developing basic communicative competence and intercultural awareness. The curriculum emphasizes a plurilingual approach, recognizing the student's existing language repertoire as a foundation for learning.

Specific Competencies:

1. Comprehension: Understanding the general meaning and specific predictable information in short, simple texts (oral, written, and multimodal) on everyday topics relevant to the student's experience. Students use various strategies and support resources to develop their linguistic repertoire. 2. Production: Producing simple, comprehensible, and structured texts using strategies like planning and compensation to express short messages related to immediate needs and everyday communicative purposes. 3. Interaction: Interacting with others using everyday expressions, employing cooperation strategies and analog and digital resources, to respond to immediate needs and interests in respectful communicative exchanges following courtesy rules. 4. Mediation: Mediating in predictable situations, using strategies and knowledge to process and transmit basic information to facilitate communication. 5. Plurilingualism: Recognizing and using personal linguistic repertoires across different languages, reflecting on their function, and identifying own strategies and knowledge to improve communication in familiar situations. 6. Interculturality: Appreciating and respecting linguistic, cultural, and artistic diversity through the foreign language, identifying and valuing differences and similarities between languages and cultures, and learning to manage intercultural situations.

Basic Knowledge:

The curriculum is structured around three blocks of basic knowledge (saberes básicos):

• Communication: Includes basic vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, spelling, conversational strategies, and use of analog and digital tools.
• Plurilingualism: Focuses on comparing and contrasting languages and identifying strategies for language learning.
• Interculturality: Covers sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects of countries where the foreign language is spoken, promoting respect for diversity and understanding of different cultures.

Resources and activities for Primero de Primaria English can be found on platforms like Twinkl and Live Worksheets.