Language Skills And The Multicultural Environment At YCIS Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is one of the most engaging and vibrant cities in

the world. It is becomingincreasingly as influential and cosmopolitan as cities such as

London and New York. Shanghai reflects the impacts of

globalisation, as people from around the world live and work

together.

ShanghaiShanghai has a mix of

cultures and languages which reflect this trend,

such as the Bund, Qibao and the modern Pudong.

YCIS Shanghai is well placed within the heart of

the city to capture this integration of Eastern and

Western influences.

Bilingual Education

While our focus is on the provision of a strong academic education, we also take care to develop the multilingual skills of our students. In our Early Years and pre-school classes we have two teachers: one Chinese and one Western. This ensures that our students can begin learning languages when they are younger and their brains are better suited to it compared to adolescents and adults.

Bilingual Education

The commitment to bilingual education carries on into secondary education. Our international curriculum lessons are taught in English, but all students are required to learn Mandarin, the official language of China. Completing the linguistic foundations built in the pre-school and primary lessons.

Language and CultureLanguages

Multicultural environment

Global skills

At YCIS Shanghai the students come from over 40 different nations,

which provides a multicultural backdrop.

This benefits the language development of our pupils, as

greater knowledge of other cultures aids the learning of language, which

is naturally embedded within the native cultures.

Language and Culture

YCIS Shanghai has a wide range of extra-curricular days and activities that allow for a more rounded education that complements academic pursuits.

This provides knowledge of the cultures in which languages form greater meaning, such as the students pictured performing Macbeth by English playwright William Shakespeare.

World Classroom

As part of our policy of offering a balanced and internationally focused

education, we run trips for our secondary school students to a range of destinations, where students have both

historical and cultural learning opportunities.

Life-Long Benefits

There are clear benefits to the multilingual and

multicultural education at YCIS Shanghai:

Greater understanding

of different cultures,

languages and traditions

More ability to adapt to the

changes driven by globalisation