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Why Learn A Second Language?

Communicating is at the center of the daily life. The U.S. has to educate its children to linguistically and culturally prepared to relate successfully in American society and abroad.

Learners of a second language and its cultural context requires:

Competence in more than one language and culture to be able to:

-communicate with other cultures in various scenarios

-look beyond the typical borders

-participate more in the world community and marketplace

-develop insight into their own language and culture

-act with better knowledge about self, other cultures, and relationship among cultures

-obtain effective access to other bodies of knowledge

Success as language and culture learners leads to:

-access to language and culture studies that are integrated into school experience

-benefit from proficiency in more than one language

-experiencing language and culture learning in various ways and scenarios

-students acquiring proficiency at various levels

Language and culture education is part of the core curriculum:

-that requires the use of effective strategies, assessment procedures, and technologies

-that reflects the evolution of learning and instructional standards at national, state, and local levels

-that advances basic communication skills and higher thinking skills.

Bienvenidos a La Clase de Español de Señora Salazar. Welcome to Mrs. Salazar's Spanish Class.

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Telephone number: 641-562-2525 Ext. 146

Email: salazar@northiowa.org

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Rita Salazar

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My name is Rita Salazar. I was born and raised in the Fairmont, Minnesota area. I have studied at Oklahoma State University, graduated from University of South Dakota with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and with Masters of Arts in world and American history, and have done post-graduate studies at South Dakota State University in sociology and geography.

My husband of 37 years is a business professor at the University of South Dakota. I have two children. My daughter is completing her graduate studies in journalism at University of Missouri, Columbia, MO and my son is completing his graduate studies in computer security at Dakota State University, Madison, SD.

In my pastime, I love to read books about the world geography and history and to travel. I have travelled to Colombia (South America), Costa Rica, England, Scotland, France, Spain, and Florence, Italy. I also lived in Colombia for four years.

I desire to share with my students and others an appreciation of the beauty and uniqueness in all of us wherever we are in the world and time.