SPAN 301-Comp/Oral Practice
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.
Course Narrative
During this class I improved upon my Spanish language skills. We did a variety of activities to improve all aspects of language skills. Some of the activities we did during this class was; watch Tedx videos or other videos, read poems, short stories or material from the required text. All of the previously mentioned increased my educational vocabulary and prepared me to present in Spanish during Capstone. One of the Tedx videos was on a politician from Colombia who was held captive for seven years. This video will forever be etched into my head as I was actually in Colombia while watching and completing the homework assignment. Her speech was very well organized which I appreciated as it created a clear timeline in my head. Her organization made it easy to understand the circumstances as if she was speaking in English, my first language. Another assignment we did was an argumentative essay. I had to chose a conspiracy theory and argue which side I believed was true, I chose the conspiracy theory of the Holocaust not actually happening. In this essay I argued that the Holocaust was a true event and the numbers associated with the amount of deaths was based on science. I had to give the pros and cons of both sides, and argue my opinion. It was important in writing this essay for me to use the correct tenses and punctuation. My professor gave us feedback and required a final draft, which reiterated the appropriate Spanish language skills needed. This class met MLO 1 of Language Proficiency.
Below is a homework assignment we had on practicing the imperfect and preterite tenses.
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.
Course Narrative
During this class I improved upon my Spanish language skills. We did a variety of activities to improve all aspects of language skills. Some of the activities we did during this class was; watch Tedx videos or other videos, read poems, short stories or material from the required text. All of the previously mentioned increased my educational vocabulary and prepared me to present in Spanish during Capstone. One of the Tedx videos was on a politician from Colombia who was held captive for seven years. This video will forever be etched into my head as I was actually in Colombia while watching and completing the homework assignment. Her speech was very well organized which I appreciated as it created a clear timeline in my head. Her organization made it easy to understand the circumstances as if she was speaking in English, my first language. Another assignment we did was an argumentative essay. I had to chose a conspiracy theory and argue which side I believed was true, I chose the conspiracy theory of the Holocaust not actually happening. In this essay I argued that the Holocaust was a true event and the numbers associated with the amount of deaths was based on science. I had to give the pros and cons of both sides, and argue my opinion. It was important in writing this essay for me to use the correct tenses and punctuation. My professor gave us feedback and required a final draft, which reiterated the appropriate Spanish language skills needed. This class met MLO 1 of Language Proficiency.
Below is a homework assignment we had on practicing the imperfect and preterite tenses.
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