Southern Regional Students Earn Seal Of Biliteracy In French

MANAHAWKIN, NJ — Eleven students in Southern Regional High School's French IV honors class passed the state's biliteracy test.

By passing all four sections of the test, a reading, a writing, a speaking and a listening section, the students attained the level of bilingualism in both French and English.

Two native Spanish speakers, Ximena Cruz- Bravo and Geoffery Solis-Romero, attained the Seal in both French and Spanish, proving that they are trilingual.

French teachers, Madame Skodi and Madame Greene, helped the students prepare for these exams with limited time amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“These students are amazing and should be commended as they succeeded in getting the Seal with much less preparation times than their predecessors get,” school officials said.

Some of the students went beyond the minimum requirement of Intermediate, achieving Intermediate-High and Advanced Levels.

In speaking and listening, seven of the eleven students received Intermediate-High and all eleven exceeded the requirement in reading and writing.

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