OBJECTIVES OF LEARNING ENGLISH IN PREPARATORY CYCLE
✓ To develop attitudes towards learning foreign language.
✓ To enable pupils to appreciate the importance of English in the progress
of Science and Technology at both national and international levels.
✓ To encourage openness to foreign cultures.
✓ To develop the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in an
integrated way with the focus on the development of communication skills.
✓ To develop the ability to extract information from a listening or reading text
or through different forms of mass media.
✓ To train pupils in the skills of logical and critical thinking.
✓ To provide for self-realization focusing on this concept through assigning
tasks to pupils which contribute to this purpose.
✓ To train the pupils to participate positively in dialogue and respect the
opinions of others e.g. through debate and discussion and exploration of
concepts.
✓ To train the pupils in problem-solving, collaborative learning, and the use
of different learning resources.
✓ To develop skills for learner-autonomy by enabling pupils to acquire a set
of learning strategies e.g. problem-solving, discovery-learning, creative
thinking and critical reading.
To encourage the development of pupils creativity.
✓ To develop moral and social values in pupils by encouraging attitudes of
tolerance, cooperation and teamwork.
