MLO 1: Language Proficiency
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. For students with two or more years of Spanish or an intermediate level of Spanish language proficiency.
Reflective Narrative:
The course SPAN 301: Composition and Oral practice helped me improve my writing and my speaking orally. Through argumentative and descriptive essays, we learned how to put our ideas in well written essays starting with brainstorming and then putting our ideas together. We read different articles and reflected on them, specifically regarding how certain issues that happened and still happening and how they impact our way of thinking. For example, we analyzed a documentary called “History of women in Latin America'', which helped me as a woman understand how even now some women lack the right to have a voice and continued to be submissive to the typical macho man of the Hispanic household. By learning about all the suffering of women from the past, I am now more aware of how I can make a difference. In addition this class taught me about different linguistic varieties of Spanish. With the help of my group, we created a presentation about the varieties that we speak and we were able to compare our varieties to those of other countries. Our presentation “Variación linguistica” shows the different dialects of the language. Through the presentation I was able to gain the ability to speak about a topic that I enjoyed researching and shared my findings with my class. Moving forward, I plan to keep writing and reading so that my abilities continue to improve. Even as a native Spanish speaker I still have to improve my vocabulary because as a bilingual person I have a mind that works in two different languages that have a variety and diversity of words. In the future I want to keep empowering myself by improving my writing even more.
The course SPAN 301: Composition and Oral practice helped me improve my writing and my speaking orally. Through argumentative and descriptive essays, we learned how to put our ideas in well written essays starting with brainstorming and then putting our ideas together. We read different articles and reflected on them, specifically regarding how certain issues that happened and still happening and how they impact our way of thinking. For example, we analyzed a documentary called “History of women in Latin America'', which helped me as a woman understand how even now some women lack the right to have a voice and continued to be submissive to the typical macho man of the Hispanic household. By learning about all the suffering of women from the past, I am now more aware of how I can make a difference. In addition this class taught me about different linguistic varieties of Spanish. With the help of my group, we created a presentation about the varieties that we speak and we were able to compare our varieties to those of other countries. Our presentation “Variación linguistica” shows the different dialects of the language. Through the presentation I was able to gain the ability to speak about a topic that I enjoyed researching and shared my findings with my class. Moving forward, I plan to keep writing and reading so that my abilities continue to improve. Even as a native Spanish speaker I still have to improve my vocabulary because as a bilingual person I have a mind that works in two different languages that have a variety and diversity of words. In the future I want to keep empowering myself by improving my writing even more.