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.
MLO Narrative
Learning a new language at an older age tends to not be too easy but I was fortunate that I learned quite a bit in my acquisition of the Spanish language. I took several courses in the span of two years at California State University Monterey Bay which enabled my language proficiency. I feel rather confident in my speaking abilities because I know I can take my time and think about the necessary words to say in order to convey whatever message or response in a situation. When I listen to Spanish from native speakers, I admit that is my weakness because the way I was taught Spanish in college differs than how the majority of native speakers converse, however, I can just about always understand the main idea. I will miss a few words here and there but I think of them as a learning opportunity and I know that everyday for the rest of my life I will continue to build my vocabulary in Spanish, just as I do in English, which is my native language. As for writing, I am very confident in my writing when it comes to English but Spanish is a little tricky. I tend to be a very colloquial writer so sometimes my sentences in Spanish do not always come out correctly but again I will always be a continuous Spanish student and I revel in the fact that writing in Spanish is quite fun. Lastly, my language proficiency is gauged by my reading skills in Spanish. I only took one course regarding Hispanic literature and passed the class but did not excel. However, I know that when I read Spanish I can sound the words out and speak with a rather good accent on top of understanding the main idea from what I am reading, especially since I can take my time. Language Proficiency was a MLO and it was one that was succeeded in all of my Spanish courses but more so focused on WLC 400: Capstone.
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.
MLO Narrative
Learning a new language at an older age tends to not be too easy but I was fortunate that I learned quite a bit in my acquisition of the Spanish language. I took several courses in the span of two years at California State University Monterey Bay which enabled my language proficiency. I feel rather confident in my speaking abilities because I know I can take my time and think about the necessary words to say in order to convey whatever message or response in a situation. When I listen to Spanish from native speakers, I admit that is my weakness because the way I was taught Spanish in college differs than how the majority of native speakers converse, however, I can just about always understand the main idea. I will miss a few words here and there but I think of them as a learning opportunity and I know that everyday for the rest of my life I will continue to build my vocabulary in Spanish, just as I do in English, which is my native language. As for writing, I am very confident in my writing when it comes to English but Spanish is a little tricky. I tend to be a very colloquial writer so sometimes my sentences in Spanish do not always come out correctly but again I will always be a continuous Spanish student and I revel in the fact that writing in Spanish is quite fun. Lastly, my language proficiency is gauged by my reading skills in Spanish. I only took one course regarding Hispanic literature and passed the class but did not excel. However, I know that when I read Spanish I can sound the words out and speak with a rather good accent on top of understanding the main idea from what I am reading, especially since I can take my time. Language Proficiency was a MLO and it was one that was succeeded in all of my Spanish courses but more so focused on WLC 400: Capstone.