MLO 1:
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Students are able to communicate effectively in Spanish in three modes: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational, and in a culturally appropriate manner in a variety of social and professional settings and circumstances at the Advanced Low level of language proficiency, according to ACTFL Guidelines
These are some classes I took that are part of this MLO:
SPAN 202 - Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 303 - Advanced Spanish Grammar
SPAN 315 - Introduction to Translation: Spanish/English
SPAN 301 - Comp/Oral Practice
This MLO served me well and really helped me in my acquisition of the Spanish language. Other than just learning the rules of Spanish grammar, vocabulary, and linguistics, these classes helped prepare me for the cultural aspects of language learning. For example, in my SPAN 202 class, we learned about how to properly order food from restaurants, how to ask directions to get anywhere in a city, and the cultural significance of the telenovela. We watched and reviewed movies in Spanish as well, which was a lot of fun. But it did, of course, help to strengthen our grammatical knowledge and understanding of Spanish, as is true for all courses in this MLO. Through all these courses, we enforced knowledge of the subjunctive and conditional tenses, the differences between por and para, and the four different iterations of por que (porque, porqué, por que, and por qué). Much of these courses were intended to teach me more of what I already had been learning in the courses I took before I came to CSUMB, in the 4 years of high school and in community college. Therefore, much of these classes served as a review for me, but an intensive one: my professors certainly did not make the assignments easy, and I am glad for that. Because the homework was often tough, I feel it helped a lot in learning the language and drilling the information into my brain.
One of the things that I liked most about these classes is that while they gave me my toughest assignments, they also gave me some of the most fun assignments I have gotten to work on here at CSUMB. One of my favorites was in the class of SPAN 301 (Composition and Oral Practice), where we were assigned to write a narrative of an event, fictional or nonfictional. I chose to create a story for that assignment: the story of a small squirrel named Tito who finds a golden acorn in the dust and how his adventure to reclaim his stolen property helps him grow and become more confident in himself.
I feel like these classes helped me a lot in my education of Spanish, because it helped to enforce my knowledge of grammar, and, like Tito the Squirrel, I feel much more confident in myself and my abilities to translate and conjugate words correctly. This is information I will use as long as I speak the language, hopefully the rest of my life.
These are some classes I took that are part of this MLO:
SPAN 202 - Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 303 - Advanced Spanish Grammar
SPAN 315 - Introduction to Translation: Spanish/English
SPAN 301 - Comp/Oral Practice
This MLO served me well and really helped me in my acquisition of the Spanish language. Other than just learning the rules of Spanish grammar, vocabulary, and linguistics, these classes helped prepare me for the cultural aspects of language learning. For example, in my SPAN 202 class, we learned about how to properly order food from restaurants, how to ask directions to get anywhere in a city, and the cultural significance of the telenovela. We watched and reviewed movies in Spanish as well, which was a lot of fun. But it did, of course, help to strengthen our grammatical knowledge and understanding of Spanish, as is true for all courses in this MLO. Through all these courses, we enforced knowledge of the subjunctive and conditional tenses, the differences between por and para, and the four different iterations of por que (porque, porqué, por que, and por qué). Much of these courses were intended to teach me more of what I already had been learning in the courses I took before I came to CSUMB, in the 4 years of high school and in community college. Therefore, much of these classes served as a review for me, but an intensive one: my professors certainly did not make the assignments easy, and I am glad for that. Because the homework was often tough, I feel it helped a lot in learning the language and drilling the information into my brain.
One of the things that I liked most about these classes is that while they gave me my toughest assignments, they also gave me some of the most fun assignments I have gotten to work on here at CSUMB. One of my favorites was in the class of SPAN 301 (Composition and Oral Practice), where we were assigned to write a narrative of an event, fictional or nonfictional. I chose to create a story for that assignment: the story of a small squirrel named Tito who finds a golden acorn in the dust and how his adventure to reclaim his stolen property helps him grow and become more confident in himself.
I feel like these classes helped me a lot in my education of Spanish, because it helped to enforce my knowledge of grammar, and, like Tito the Squirrel, I feel much more confident in myself and my abilities to translate and conjugate words correctly. This is information I will use as long as I speak the language, hopefully the rest of my life.
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