MLO 1: LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
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 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 nonnatives.
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 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 nonnatives.
Courses Completed:
Reflection:
SPAN 301: Composition/Oral Practice: This course helped me achieve the skills needed to complete all elements for MLO1. This course included a variety of assignments ranging from class discussions and oral presentations. Therefore, through these assignments I was able to practice my speaking skills (1.1). As for the listening ability (1.2), this course demanded extra attention to detail so that we were able to listen carefully and thus understand the instructions and explanations provided by the professor. On the other hand, the course also included various assignments were we read (1.3) articles and short stories to be able to analyze the reading in a cohesive essay (1.4). Through out these assignments, we constantly received feed back from the professor that helped us improve our performance abilities and skills.
SPAN304: Introduction to Hispanic Literature: This course provided a small glimpse into different aspects of early Hispanic Literature. Through the various stories, plays, and poems; that we were able to read (1.3) and then reflect on (1.4), the course facilitated the engagement and exposure of students to different literary genres. Since the assessments were a combination of tests, essays (1.4), and oral presentations (1.1); listening (1.2) attentively was vital in order to be complete these assignments successfully.
SPAN304: Introduction to Hispanic Literature: This course provided a small glimpse into different aspects of early Hispanic Literature. Through the various stories, plays, and poems; that we were able to read (1.3) and then reflect on (1.4), the course facilitated the engagement and exposure of students to different literary genres. Since the assessments were a combination of tests, essays (1.4), and oral presentations (1.1); listening (1.2) attentively was vital in order to be complete these assignments successfully.