Welcome to the Westlake World Language Department!
The Westlake High School World Language Department has been offering the highest quality language instruction and assessment since its establishment in 1978. With course offerings in 4 languages, the WHS World Language Department programs are proficiency-oriented and standards-based. Our language programs emphasize doing rather than knowing, so that students learn to speak, listen, read, and write in ways that are immediately useful in a real world setting.
Our Mission
The programs in our department prepare all WHS students to have a foreign language capability that will enhance their learning, creativity, propagation, preservation and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society. To fulfill this mission, the WHS World Language Department strives in the pursuit of academic excellence and diversity, recognizing that openness and inclusion produce true quality. We implement the value of initiating interactions with persons from other cultures but also to engage with them on issues of mutual concern.
We abide as a department to uphold and commit ourselves to promote our institution's responsibilities that:
(a) learning occurs through the engagement in campus life and in communities and organizations beyond WHS,
not just in the classroom;
(b) advancing knowledge is promoted through discovery, creativity, and innovation which enriches diverse perspectives so all can flourish;
(c) serving our students through pedagogy and scholarship is radical to the foundation of our students' competencies, priding ourselves in the academic results of successive generations of leaders for social engagement.
(a) learning occurs through the engagement in campus life and in communities and organizations beyond WHS,
not just in the classroom;
(b) advancing knowledge is promoted through discovery, creativity, and innovation which enriches diverse perspectives so all can flourish;
(c) serving our students through pedagogy and scholarship is radical to the foundation of our students' competencies, priding ourselves in the academic results of successive generations of leaders for social engagement.