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 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.
Note: Final Language Proficiency is demonstrated in WLC 400: WLC Major Capstone
The courses which fulfill this Major Learning Outcome are SPAN 301, SPAN 303, SPAN 304, SPAN 321, SPAN 365, and SPAN 425.
My experience at CSU-MB has helped me reach an advanced level of proficiency in Spanish. Each course I took to fulfill this Major Learning Outcome has allowed me to practice the language by speaking, listening, reading, or writing it. Proficiency in this language was tested in a classroom setting and we found that I achieved the goal set forth in this outcome.
The classes completed provided me with an opportunity to enhance my ability to communicate in Spanish thanks to their immersive nature. Having classes in which Spanish was the only language used was a key component in fulfilling this outcome.
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.
Note: Final Language Proficiency is demonstrated in WLC 400: WLC Major Capstone
The courses which fulfill this Major Learning Outcome are SPAN 301, SPAN 303, SPAN 304, SPAN 321, SPAN 365, and SPAN 425.
My experience at CSU-MB has helped me reach an advanced level of proficiency in Spanish. Each course I took to fulfill this Major Learning Outcome has allowed me to practice the language by speaking, listening, reading, or writing it. Proficiency in this language was tested in a classroom setting and we found that I achieved the goal set forth in this outcome.
The classes completed provided me with an opportunity to enhance my ability to communicate in Spanish thanks to their immersive nature. Having classes in which Spanish was the only language used was a key component in fulfilling this outcome.