Course Description: Continues to build proficiency as defined by the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. Content-based instruction develops communicative language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing through readings and discussions of authentic Hispanic cultural and literary texts.
This course utilized a variety of media and presentation styles to help us develop our Spanish language skills. The course helped us develop our communicative Spanish, but focused mainly on expanding our vocabulary. The course was very casual and the professor told many jokes and used videos to help us learn new topics like the theories on the power of literacy, and this was very effective in that as we spoke and wrote he would casually interrupt with linguistic concepts and vocabulary that I still use and describe to this day. Literacy is the ultimate goal of the course but I enjoyed how the professor emphasized the power of literacy and the privilege that comes with it. This was a great introduction into the inequity present in many societies including our own. The course was meant to serve as a base for our future Spanish courses and went over the structure of narrative, argumentative essays and general presentation/ public speaking skills. The narrative section was very interesting because we were able to work on creative writing and learned descriptive words along the way. The argumentative essay portion was very straight forward, but it was helpful to learn to label an argumentative essay with the proper Spanish terminology. Lastly, the presentation section was fun because we were able to pick our own topics and inform the class on the subject. My group decided to research censorship and the different classifications of censorship. The professor helped us develop the proper transitioning vocabulary and how to deal with delays in speech in a professional manner. The link to the presentation can be found here.
Course Narrative: This course met MLO1 & MLO2
This course utilized a variety of media and presentation styles to help us develop our Spanish language skills. The course helped us develop our communicative Spanish, but focused mainly on expanding our vocabulary. The course was very casual and the professor told many jokes and used videos to help us learn new topics like the theories on the power of literacy, and this was very effective in that as we spoke and wrote he would casually interrupt with linguistic concepts and vocabulary that I still use and describe to this day. Literacy is the ultimate goal of the course but I enjoyed how the professor emphasized the power of literacy and the privilege that comes with it. This was a great introduction into the inequity present in many societies including our own. The course was meant to serve as a base for our future Spanish courses and went over the structure of narrative, argumentative essays and general presentation/ public speaking skills. The narrative section was very interesting because we were able to work on creative writing and learned descriptive words along the way. The argumentative essay portion was very straight forward, but it was helpful to learn to label an argumentative essay with the proper Spanish terminology. Lastly, the presentation section was fun because we were able to pick our own topics and inform the class on the subject. My group decided to research censorship and the different classifications of censorship. The professor helped us develop the proper transitioning vocabulary and how to deal with delays in speech in a professional manner. The link to the presentation can be found here.
Course Narrative: This course met MLO1 & MLO2