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. ePortfolio BA Spanish Guidelines p.9 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 nonnatives. Note: Final Language Proficiency is demonstrated in WLC 400: WLC Major Capstone.
The courses that were completed for this MLO are: SPAN 301, SPAN 301S, SPAN 302, SPAN 303, SPAN 304, SPAN 306, SPAN 315, SPAN 316
Span 315: Introduction to Translation: Spanish/English
Span 315 is one of the best classes offered for Spanish major at CSUMB. Students had to translate texts from English to Spanish and vice versa, we had to work on different texts and be able to translate them, and reflect on our work based on our understanding of the techniques and methods learned in the class. Students develop their level of reading and writing as well as their critical thinking and analytic skills. It addition, it enhances students' writing ability because written assignments are required in this course.
I believe this class reflects my achievement of the outcomes of MLO 1 because it helped me achieve more overall proficiency in the language, and I was also able to develop my performance in the interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes through my exposure to and interpretation of different kinds of authentic texts; the discussion on different linguistic topics I was able to have with my classmates, and the written assignments I completed. What follows is a sample of the kind of work I did in this class. I feel this work synthesizes my growth in the different areas of Spanish I have discussed, as well as the development of some of the main linguistic concepts in the fields of Hispanic linguistics and translation. |
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