The student sustains performance in speaking, listening, reading and writing at the Advanced level of language proficiency, as outlined by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL):
- 1.1 Speaking ability: The student is able to satisfy the requirements of everyday situations and routine school and work requirements. Can communicate facts and talk casually about topics of current public and personal interest, using general vocabulary. The student can be understood without difficulty by native speakers.
- 1.2 Listening ability: The student is able to understand main ideas and most details of connected discourse on a variety of topics beyond the immediacy of the situation. Comprehension may be uneven due to a variety of linguistic factors and topics.
- 1.3 Reading ability: The student is able to read prose selections of several paragraphs in length, particularly if printed clearly and if prose is in familiar sentence patterns. Reader understands the main ideas and facts but may miss some details. At this level the student can read such texts as descriptions, narratives, short stories, news items and routine personal and business correspondence.
- 1.4 Writing ability: The student is able to write routine social correspondence and join sentences in simple discourse of at least several paragraphs in length on familiar topics, and is able to express him/herself simply with some circumlocution. Good control of the most frequently used syntactic structures, but makes frequent errors in producing complex sentences. Writing is understandable to natives not used to the writing of non-natives.
The courses that have helped me, as well as to meet criteria are:
SPAN 300: Spanish Composition and Oral Practice (Fall 2015),
SPAN 304: Introduction to Hispanic Literature (Fall 2015),
WLC 400 (Spring 2017)
SPAN 300: Spanish Composition and Oral Practice (Fall 2015),
SPAN 304: Introduction to Hispanic Literature (Fall 2015),
WLC 400 (Spring 2017)
Reflection:
My MLO 1 was supported through all of my Spanish courses. The courses that helped me the most were SPAN 300, SPAN 304 and WLC 400. SPAN 300 was important to me because it was my first writing class. The class was composed of reading assignments and answering questions as well as writing papers. We not only practiced our writing but many of the times we had conversations and discussion in class which allowed me to practice my Spanish.
SPAN 304 was also important because of the vast information that we covered and learned. We learned a lot of the historical moments through literature poetry and film. We began with the origins and progressed to the different literature movements that happened in Spain then slowly moved to the Americas. Through the class we were able to meet this MLO by reading literature, speaking in class about the assignments. We learned and broke down poetry which helped me understand how the structure, rhythm, pattern, literary devices and much more.
Each Spanish course helped me developed this MLO through the material in class. I understand learning has no limits and I want to continue growing as a person and my academic skills.
My MLO 1 was supported through all of my Spanish courses. The courses that helped me the most were SPAN 300, SPAN 304 and WLC 400. SPAN 300 was important to me because it was my first writing class. The class was composed of reading assignments and answering questions as well as writing papers. We not only practiced our writing but many of the times we had conversations and discussion in class which allowed me to practice my Spanish.
SPAN 304 was also important because of the vast information that we covered and learned. We learned a lot of the historical moments through literature poetry and film. We began with the origins and progressed to the different literature movements that happened in Spain then slowly moved to the Americas. Through the class we were able to meet this MLO by reading literature, speaking in class about the assignments. We learned and broke down poetry which helped me understand how the structure, rhythm, pattern, literary devices and much more.
Each Spanish course helped me developed this MLO through the material in class. I understand learning has no limits and I want to continue growing as a person and my academic skills.