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.
Courses Completed:
Spanish 301 Spanish Composition and Oral Practice
Spanish 303 Advanced Spanish Grammar
Spanish 304 Intro to Hispanic Literature
Spanish 310 Hispanic Children Literature
Reflection: With Spanish being my second language studying it was not easy at all. My hard work and the challenges I went through each course helped me gain a new understanding in reading, writing, and speaking it orally. In each course that I took the classroom setting was approachable and comfortable for the student to be able to talk to the other students. In Spanish 301 I got to practice my writing by creating compositions and doing homework every class we had. The professor would make each and everyone of us respond to a question in Spanish. He would mention that once we stepped inside that classroom it was all Spanish that we would speak. For our final project for that class we had to write and create a presentation about a Latin American country, my group chose Costa Rica. We created a six page paper and a ten minute presentation for each person.Below is my essay that I worked on and my presentation as well.
In each of these courses I got to communicate with the professor and the class about mostly everything. In child literature we talked about the social issues of children in the classroom now a days. In Hispanic Literature we would read pages and pages of lots of rich narratives, and short stories of the old times. In Children Literature we also got to see many presentations of our peers and ours of how to represent a children's book and how we would be able to teach it to an elementary classroom.
Evidence: Child literature: El Son del Africa is a Presentation with my group that we presented on the book and its analysis. Spanish 304: We analyzed El Mio Cid which is a popular poem in the Spanish literature.