At KIS Seoul Campus, we consider our world language program to be the crux of one of our KIS Core Values: global citizenship. Multilingual  students can more fully participate in their local, national, and global communities by proficiently using multiple languages and demonstrating competency across diverse cultures. Having acquired linguistic proficiency and a deeper cultural understanding, children become more aware of and responsive to the world around them. To this end, students can become empathetic listeners and viewers, understanding and empathizing with how challenging it can be to communicate in new languages. They can more deftly  demonstrate insight into the links between culture, language, and communication; having compared their own experiences to the culture of the target language. They can examine subject disciplines from diverse perspectives, having used multiple languages and cultural competencies to research and discuss other learning areas. They have a critical understanding of their own identities and their role in the world, having explored their identities within a new language and culture. 

While applying and using their language and cultural skills to invest in our local community, KIS students are equipped to be engaged global citizens. In this way, students of all ages and at all levels of proficiency will use the target language to: 

• communicate with speakers/signers of the target language, especially those in their schools and community; 
• explore and celebrate the artifacts, practices, and perspectives of multiple cultures; 
• compare their own languages and cultures with those of the host community; 
• expand their academic knowledge of other disciplines; 
• become lifelong learners and enjoy the opportunities that proficiency in multiple languages can offer them; and 
• become agents of change that promote equity, global awareness, and multicultural understanding