MLO 1: Language Profeciency
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 nonnatives.
Note: Final Language Proficiency is demonstrated in WLC 400: WLC Major Capstone
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 nonnatives.
Note: Final Language Proficiency is demonstrated in WLC 400: WLC Major Capstone
The courses I have completed to fulfill major learning outcome one: Language Proficiency are all the courses listed below. A significant amount of the courses I completed for the Spanish major fulfilled MLO 1. Throughout these courses, I have been able to practice my listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in various ways. I have completed various oral presentations for each one of these classes therefore, gaining practice in my Spanish language communication skills. The required essays and assignments implemented in each course have allowed me to practice my writing ability. Although not all of my completed assignments were faultless, I did learn from all of my writing assignment. I have noticed my writing skills improve throughout each of my courses. I have gained listening skills through supplemental material such as films and audio recordings. In addition, listening to my peers in class activities and oral presentations as well as listening to the professors, I have improved my Spanish and expanded my vocabulary through lectures and by readings.