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.
The courses that were completed for this MLO are SPAN 306, SPAN 304, SPAN 301, SPAN 301S, SPAN 313, SPAN 315, SPAN 302, and SPAN 303. Meeting the outcomes of this MLO are supported by the courses that I have completed in many ways. I have applied 1.1, which is speaking ability, in all of the classes that I have mention in this category. Some examples would be when I would give a presentation about a certain topic (e.g. presentation on "Rojo Amanecer"), have group discussions, etc. I have also applied 1.2, which is the listening ability, in many situations like listening to a lecture, or when the teacher is giving instructions for a project, etc. I have used the reading ability (1.3) in said classes by reading the assigned textbook, articles, stories, and poems in Spanish. As for the writing ability (1.4), I have used it when writing essays, doing power point presentations, etc. Some areas within the MLO that I have developed are the reading and writing ability. Before I came to CSUMB, I could not read or write as well as I can now. As for the areas that I wish to continue to develop after completing my degree would be all of them: speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities. Since I plan on becoming an interpreter and/or translator of English and Spanish, I need to expand my vocabulary to be able to do that and in doing so, I need to cover all of those areas. Some areas of the MLO that I found challenging were in the areas of reading and writing. I dealt with these challenges in many ways. One would be by looking up the definition of a word that I would not know while I would be reading a book/article/poem/etc. in Spanish. Also, when I could not spell correctly a word in Spanish, I would look for it's translation in English and find it's spelling in Spanish. This MLO contributed to my personal intellectual growth by helping me improve my reading and writing skills in Spanish. Before taking these classes, I only knew the basics since I started taking Spanish classes in college (I took Italian classes in high school), but after taking a couple of Spanish classes here, it has helped me develop a higher understanding of the Spanish Language, especially when one has to read long chapters/stories, write essays, talk to the teachers, etc. in Spanish.
● 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.
The courses that were completed for this MLO are SPAN 306, SPAN 304, SPAN 301, SPAN 301S, SPAN 313, SPAN 315, SPAN 302, and SPAN 303. Meeting the outcomes of this MLO are supported by the courses that I have completed in many ways. I have applied 1.1, which is speaking ability, in all of the classes that I have mention in this category. Some examples would be when I would give a presentation about a certain topic (e.g. presentation on "Rojo Amanecer"), have group discussions, etc. I have also applied 1.2, which is the listening ability, in many situations like listening to a lecture, or when the teacher is giving instructions for a project, etc. I have used the reading ability (1.3) in said classes by reading the assigned textbook, articles, stories, and poems in Spanish. As for the writing ability (1.4), I have used it when writing essays, doing power point presentations, etc. Some areas within the MLO that I have developed are the reading and writing ability. Before I came to CSUMB, I could not read or write as well as I can now. As for the areas that I wish to continue to develop after completing my degree would be all of them: speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities. Since I plan on becoming an interpreter and/or translator of English and Spanish, I need to expand my vocabulary to be able to do that and in doing so, I need to cover all of those areas. Some areas of the MLO that I found challenging were in the areas of reading and writing. I dealt with these challenges in many ways. One would be by looking up the definition of a word that I would not know while I would be reading a book/article/poem/etc. in Spanish. Also, when I could not spell correctly a word in Spanish, I would look for it's translation in English and find it's spelling in Spanish. This MLO contributed to my personal intellectual growth by helping me improve my reading and writing skills in Spanish. Before taking these classes, I only knew the basics since I started taking Spanish classes in college (I took Italian classes in high school), but after taking a couple of Spanish classes here, it has helped me develop a higher understanding of the Spanish Language, especially when one has to read long chapters/stories, write essays, talk to the teachers, etc. in Spanish.