MLO 1
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.
Note: Final Language Proficiency is demonstrated in WLC 400: WLC Major Capstone
Courses taken to satisfy this learning outcome:
SPAN 301: Composition /Oral Practice. This course covers different narrative topics, such as informative, expository and persuasive. In addition, is designed to actively participate by speaking, an aspect that helped me achieve the requirement 1.1 Speaking ability. Because the class is taught in Spanish we had the opportunity as a group to discuss, analyze and debate various social, political and cultural issues that the professor exposed as a topic of the day in class. At the end of the debate, each student had the possibility to expose their opinion and point of view orally. It is at this point, where I actively had the opportunity to practice and improve my speaking ability and increase my Spanish vocabulary. To remark my speaking ability, at the end of the semester, I was required as part of the course, to perform an oral presentation to my classmate. Regarding the requirement 1.2 Listening ability, this SPAN 301 course also covers this area, since we had to listen carefully the different topics that the professor explained, in order to understand the main idea and then develop the analysis, discussion and debate.
SPAN 304: Introduction to Hispanic Literature. This course fulfilled point 1.3 Reading ability. This subject is taught in Spanish, and it is focused entirely onto the study and analysis of poetic and narrative works by Hispanic authors such as Garcilaso de la Vega (Spain), San Juan de la Cruz (Spain), Rubén Darío (Nicaragua), Amado Nervo (México), and others. Taking into consideration that most of the literary work of these authors were poems and narratives, I had to read a considerable amount of literary works. Besides of reading, SPAN 304 supported me to achieve requirement 1.4 Writing ability, because after reading poems or narratives works, I was required to write a reflection about the author and his literary work; this activity helped me to improve my Spanish grammar and writing skill.
To conclude, SPAN 301 and SPAN 304 are both, a perfect complimented course that put together speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities, that greatly supported me to fulfill the MLO 1 requirements.
SPAN 301: Composition /Oral Practice. This course covers different narrative topics, such as informative, expository and persuasive. In addition, is designed to actively participate by speaking, an aspect that helped me achieve the requirement 1.1 Speaking ability. Because the class is taught in Spanish we had the opportunity as a group to discuss, analyze and debate various social, political and cultural issues that the professor exposed as a topic of the day in class. At the end of the debate, each student had the possibility to expose their opinion and point of view orally. It is at this point, where I actively had the opportunity to practice and improve my speaking ability and increase my Spanish vocabulary. To remark my speaking ability, at the end of the semester, I was required as part of the course, to perform an oral presentation to my classmate. Regarding the requirement 1.2 Listening ability, this SPAN 301 course also covers this area, since we had to listen carefully the different topics that the professor explained, in order to understand the main idea and then develop the analysis, discussion and debate.
SPAN 304: Introduction to Hispanic Literature. This course fulfilled point 1.3 Reading ability. This subject is taught in Spanish, and it is focused entirely onto the study and analysis of poetic and narrative works by Hispanic authors such as Garcilaso de la Vega (Spain), San Juan de la Cruz (Spain), Rubén Darío (Nicaragua), Amado Nervo (México), and others. Taking into consideration that most of the literary work of these authors were poems and narratives, I had to read a considerable amount of literary works. Besides of reading, SPAN 304 supported me to achieve requirement 1.4 Writing ability, because after reading poems or narratives works, I was required to write a reflection about the author and his literary work; this activity helped me to improve my Spanish grammar and writing skill.
To conclude, SPAN 301 and SPAN 304 are both, a perfect complimented course that put together speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities, that greatly supported me to fulfill the MLO 1 requirements.