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.
● 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.
Reflective Narrative:
I accomplished this MLO several years of study . Grammar, Composition, History, Literature and all the other lower and upper division courses. I believe that education begins at home, but the university has helped refine what I though I already knew. Each of the classes I took had to taken serve with a particular purpose. Literature classes of Mexico , Latin America and Spain , have made me more fluent in my reading, in my critical thinking and speak abilities. In all this courses I was able to hear and discuss various topics with my classmates, this allowed me to communicate with them and others to develop my ability to listen, speak, and critically understand this topics. I was also able to write essays that have been reviewed by my teachers, which have been corrected so that I can see what areas I need to improve. The best thing that I have learned through my schooling is to research when I have thought about certain themes, or simple in unsure of the meaning or grammar on simple words. The best preparation I've had, aside from my classes, has been my final project, "CAPSTONE". The long hours spent in finding the subject, developing my theme and seeking critical articles to support my topic have met all the sections of this MLO. This project is a set of everything learned through the years. It allowed me to gather my knowledge and put it together into this research. Finally I had to do an assessment to the Spanish department teachers.