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.
SPAN 301
SPAN 306
SPAN 304
Spanish 301, 303, and 306 helped me to complete the MLO 1 requirement. In all three classes, I had the opportunity to practice my Spanish through presentations and class discussions. I did not need too much practice because before taking these classes I already spoke Spanish, but I am glad I took them anyway. Even though I did not have to practice a lot, there were students who needed it and I was able to help them. These classes also helped me to improve my listening ability. For example, in my Spanish 306 class we watched videos and we had to take notes to write an analysis about the video. I had to be careful with what I wrote because I did not want to include wrong information. It was a little bit difficult because the Spanish variation used in some videos was different from the Spanish variation I speak. I remember that one video was about Argentina, so it included words that I did not understand. In terms of my reading ability, Span 304 and 306 are the classes that helped me improve my reading skills. In my Spanish 304 class, we had to read several stories. Reading those stories helped me practice sophisticated words in Spanish. I had trouble with some words because they were long, but I was able to pronounce them correctly. My Span 306 class was also helpful because I had to read a book that was about Latin America countries. It included a lot of politician’s names, all the capitals, and certain policies names that were hard to say; I remember that I had trouble pronouncing Tegucigalpa and Tenochtitlan. Spanish 301, 304, and 306 also helped me with my writing ability. In Spanish 301, I had to write four essays. I revised three of them because I made a couple of mistakes. It was helpful that the teacher highlighted the mistakes because it was easier to correct. I am glad that my teacher gave us the opportunity to correct them to get a better grade. I think it was a good strategy because it helped us to stop repeating the same mistakes over and over again. In my Spanish 304 class, we also had to write essays and the teacher also highlighted the mistakes we made. This area was challenging because when I was taking these classes, my Spanish writing skills were not the best. Fortunately, I was able to improve in this area after taking these three classes.
orozcoalonzo_mlo1.pdf
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.
SPAN 301
SPAN 306
SPAN 304
Spanish 301, 303, and 306 helped me to complete the MLO 1 requirement. In all three classes, I had the opportunity to practice my Spanish through presentations and class discussions. I did not need too much practice because before taking these classes I already spoke Spanish, but I am glad I took them anyway. Even though I did not have to practice a lot, there were students who needed it and I was able to help them. These classes also helped me to improve my listening ability. For example, in my Spanish 306 class we watched videos and we had to take notes to write an analysis about the video. I had to be careful with what I wrote because I did not want to include wrong information. It was a little bit difficult because the Spanish variation used in some videos was different from the Spanish variation I speak. I remember that one video was about Argentina, so it included words that I did not understand. In terms of my reading ability, Span 304 and 306 are the classes that helped me improve my reading skills. In my Spanish 304 class, we had to read several stories. Reading those stories helped me practice sophisticated words in Spanish. I had trouble with some words because they were long, but I was able to pronounce them correctly. My Span 306 class was also helpful because I had to read a book that was about Latin America countries. It included a lot of politician’s names, all the capitals, and certain policies names that were hard to say; I remember that I had trouble pronouncing Tegucigalpa and Tenochtitlan. Spanish 301, 304, and 306 also helped me with my writing ability. In Spanish 301, I had to write four essays. I revised three of them because I made a couple of mistakes. It was helpful that the teacher highlighted the mistakes because it was easier to correct. I am glad that my teacher gave us the opportunity to correct them to get a better grade. I think it was a good strategy because it helped us to stop repeating the same mistakes over and over again. In my Spanish 304 class, we also had to write essays and the teacher also highlighted the mistakes we made. This area was challenging because when I was taking these classes, my Spanish writing skills were not the best. Fortunately, I was able to improve in this area after taking these three classes.
orozcoalonzo_mlo1.pdf