major learning outcome 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 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.
Obtained from the CSUMB Spanish Major page.
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.
Obtained from the CSUMB Spanish Major page.
mlo 1 Reflective Narrative
SPAN 301, SPAN 301S, & SPAN 304
The courses listed above were the courses that fulfilled the first Major Learning Outcome for the Spanish Major. These three courses are the core requirements that every student that is planning to be a Spanish Major needs to take. Each class helped me in a different way and I learned a lot from all three classes. In SPAN 301 I learned how to better express myself in Spanish and how to substitute words that I constantly repeat, to learning their synonyms and using different words instead to avoid redundancy. I was also able to perfectionate my spanish in writing. I learned how to describe with ease and how to say a description without having to think too much of what I was going to say. SPAN 301S also helped me a lot in the speaking ability with class presentations individually and in groups. This class also helped me a lot with my listening ability. I learned how to listen respectfully to others opinions even if I did not fully agree with them. SPAN 304 was the finishing touch to my Spanish improvement. I was able to read and write a lot better by the end of the class. The professor really encouraged us to write a lot and it would help me improve a lot. These three classes helped me fulfil the first Learning Outcome of the Spanish Major and I am really appreciative for the great and understanding professors I had. These classes really help the students that are just starting the major improve by a lot. There is a big difference that the student is even able to notice by the end of these core requirements.
Attached you will find three different pieces of work. Here you can see one of the assignments for each class and how each class helped me grow as a Spanish major.
ana_laura_alvarado_analisis_poema_span_304_.pdf
ana_laura_alvarado_narracion_span_301.pdf
span_301s_reflexion_ana_laura_.pdf
The courses listed above were the courses that fulfilled the first Major Learning Outcome for the Spanish Major. These three courses are the core requirements that every student that is planning to be a Spanish Major needs to take. Each class helped me in a different way and I learned a lot from all three classes. In SPAN 301 I learned how to better express myself in Spanish and how to substitute words that I constantly repeat, to learning their synonyms and using different words instead to avoid redundancy. I was also able to perfectionate my spanish in writing. I learned how to describe with ease and how to say a description without having to think too much of what I was going to say. SPAN 301S also helped me a lot in the speaking ability with class presentations individually and in groups. This class also helped me a lot with my listening ability. I learned how to listen respectfully to others opinions even if I did not fully agree with them. SPAN 304 was the finishing touch to my Spanish improvement. I was able to read and write a lot better by the end of the class. The professor really encouraged us to write a lot and it would help me improve a lot. These three classes helped me fulfil the first Learning Outcome of the Spanish Major and I am really appreciative for the great and understanding professors I had. These classes really help the students that are just starting the major improve by a lot. There is a big difference that the student is even able to notice by the end of these core requirements.
Attached you will find three different pieces of work. Here you can see one of the assignments for each class and how each class helped me grow as a Spanish major.
ana_laura_alvarado_analisis_poema_span_304_.pdf
ana_laura_alvarado_narracion_span_301.pdf
span_301s_reflexion_ana_laura_.pdf