GENERAL OBJECTIVES OBJECTIVES OF THE LANGUAGE AREAS

a) To know and appreciate the values and norms of co-existence, 1. To value the multilingual and multicultural reality of
learn to behave accordingly, prepare them for active our society as a personal and collective enrichment, be
citizenship and to respect human rights and the pluralism of a conscious of the importance of languages in this
democratic society. global world and use in an autonomous way all means,
b) To develop individual and team-working habits, effort, including ICT, to obtain information and to
responsibility for their work, self-confidence, critical communicate avoiding linguistic stereotypes that
awareness, personal initiative, curiosity, interest and suppose value judgements and classiest, racist or
creativity. sexist prejudices.
c) To acquire habits or prevent and to resolve conflicts which 2. To develop oral and written communicative
will enable them to act autonomously in the domestic and competence in all school languages to communicate
family environment and in their social groups. with others, to learn, to express personal opinions and
d) To know, understand and respect different cultures and the perceptions, appropriate and transmit cultural richness
differences between people, equal rights and opportunities of and satisfy individual and social needs.
men and women and non-discrimination towards the disabled. 3. To develop Catalan language competence as an oral or
e) To know and use appropriately the Spanish language and, if written communication vehicle, for knowledge
applicable, the co-official language of the Autonomous construction, for personal development and expression
Community, and develop reading habits. and for the participation in cultural creations.
f) To acquire basic communicative competences in at least one 4. To develop Spanish language competence, so that at
foreign language to enable them to express and understand the end of primary education, the normal and correct
simple messages and get by in everyday situations. use of both official languages.
g) To develop basic mathematical competences and begin to 5. To express oneself orally, taking into account the
solve problems which require elemental arithmetical forms and the contents at different communicative
operations, geometry and calculations and be capable of context and situations, and showing a respectful and
applying them to situations from their daily lives. collaborative attitude.
h) To know and value the natural, social and cultural 6. To understand and answer the most usual interactions
environments and learn how to care for them. in the classroom orally in the foreign language.
i) To begin to use information and communication technology 7. To understand oral speech and oral explanations done
and develop critical awareness of the messages sent and in the school and in their social and cultural context.
received. 8. To understand oral messages in the foreign language
j) To use different artistic representations and expressions and about topics related to students’ interest.
start to create visual designs. 9. To understand written texts in the school and in their
k) To value hygiene and health, accept ones body and that of social and cultural context.
others, respect differences and use physical education and 10. To understand audiovisual texts (ads, films, news)
sports as a means for personal and social development. from the communication media or information and
l) To know and value the animals which are closest to human communication technologies, and do a critical and
life and learn to look after them. creative reading.
m) To develop their affective capacities in all aspects of 11. To use the library, audiovisual means of
personality and in their relations with others. Develop an communication and information technologies properly
attitude against violence, prejudices of any type and sexist to obtain, interpret and value information and different
stereotypes. options.
n) To promote road safety and attitudes of respect that will 12. To use the languages effectively in the school activity,
contribute to the prevention of road accidents. to search, collect and process information, to write
texts related to the different curriculum areas.
13. To produce different types of texts and in different
 mediums, related to the socio-cultural context, with
appropriateness, coherence, cohesion and linguistic
correction, suitable to their age.
14. To reflect on the language and the linguistic rules,
from communicative situations, to write and to speak
appropriately, coherently and correctly, and to
understand oral and written texts.
15. To use reading as an enjoyment source and personal
enrichment and to approach to literary tradition works.
16. To understand different genres of literary texts and
initiate in the knowledge of the specific conventions of
literary language.
17. To show a receptive, interested and confident attitude
towards learning and language use ability.