Chinese Primary Language Arts 5C and 6C Honors is the first advanced Chinese primary language arts honors course recognized by the University of California system in the State of California. It provides both Chinese as native language students and Chinese immersion students an honor course to further develop advanced Chinese literacy skills while earning honors credits.

Chinese Primary Language Arts 1-8 is a four-year literature-based advanced primary language arts course emphasizes the Five C’s (Communication, Communities, Cultures, Comparisons and Connections) as described in Standards For Foreign Language Learning: Preparing for the 21^st Century by the U.S. Department of Education, for students (including Limited English Proficient, Fluent English Proficient and Chinese immersion students) who are literate in Chinese (equivalent to China or Taiwan’s 7^th graders’ Chinese level) to further develop their speaking, reading, and writing skills in Chinese. The language of instruction will be 100% in Chinese. This course will also focus on facilitating students’ positive transferring of literacy skills to second language acquisition, promoting community involvement, career awareness and technology application.

Students take three years of English as a Second Language class.

There are three levels:

Beginning level: ESL level 1 and 2

Intermediate level: ESL level 3 and 4

Advanced level: ESL level 5 and 6

Each year, students must take one ESL language development class and one ESL reading class, except Advanced level students, who take one ESL language development class and one grade level English/Literature class.

After a student finishes three years of ESL courses, he/she will be transitioned to English/Literature SDAIE courses by grade level. We offer four English courses that are accepted by the University of California to fulfill the English /literature course requirement for admission. These courses are:

9th grade English

10th grade English

American Literature

European/English Literature

SDAIE stands for Special Designed Academic Instruction in English

At Abraham Lincoln High School, we offer a wide variety of SDAIE classes in most subject areas that help our English Language Learners to meet the high school graduation requirements and/or University of California "a to f" admission requirements. In these classes, students use the same core text books that the regular English speaking students are using, but the teachers employ ESL/sheltered English methodology to teach. Therefore, students will not be hindered by their lack of English language competency to handle the course work in different subject areas.