The role of texts
All products of language use—oral, written, visual, or multi-modal—can be described as texts. Texts are an invaluable source of language as it is used for the purpose of communication in real life. In Junior Cycle
MFL
Modern Foreign Languages
, students will be exposed to a range of authentic and adapted oral, written, and multi-modal texts in a variety of genres and formats.
As basic users, students learn to process, understand and create short and simple texts in familiar contexts related to areas of immediate relevance in the personal, public and educational domains of language use. As their proficiency grows, students manage to process, understand and create texts of increasing length and complexity related to concrete and
Familiar topics
Topics that are familiar to the learner through their own lived experience.
relevant to their own lives.