MLO 1: Language Proficiency
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.
To assess this requirement I completed WLC 400. This is the major capstone course, where the student must demonstrate his or her ability to speak, read, write, and understand in the target language. I have been doing extensive research on my topic of second language acquisition, which will be reflected at the end of the course with a presentation of my research findings. So far, I have learned a great deal about the processes that take place in SLA, learning how and when speakers become fluent in a second language with an already complex linguistic and grammar system in place. WLC 400 has improved my ability to do research on scholarly topics, with resources that include online databases, scholarly articles and journals, and esteemed published books and authors, all through the help of university librarians. It has enhanced my capability to understand high-level material and focus on the main objectives of such material. Other course which undoubtedly helped on fulfilling this requirement were courses such as Span 316, Span 303, Span 306 and Span 309.
Major Learning Outcome 1: Language Proficiency and Knowledge will be successfully fulfilled through a completion of the Capstone course (WLC 400) that I am currently enrolled in and will be assessed after completion of the course requirements. This Learning outcome measures the student’s ability to communicate proficiently, but also places an emphasis on professional and literary communication. The Outcome also evaluates the student’s ability to properly understand the main ideas and concepts while listening in the target language. Reading and writing hold great value to this MLO, because they are forms of communications that allow students the ability to effectively communicate in a professional atmosphere. Through a completion of these four requirements students will have completed Major Learning Outcome 1 and have proven Language Proficiency and Knowledge in the desired target language. The completion of this course not only requires an immersion of the student with the target language, but also requires a great effort made towards learning traditions and the meaning behind them. This course, taught in Spanish, has been particularly important to developing the student’s comprehension of the language and the literary research abilities.
Major Learning Outcome 1: Language Proficiency and Knowledge will be successfully fulfilled through a completion of the Capstone course (WLC 400) that I am currently enrolled in and will be assessed after completion of the course requirements. This Learning outcome measures the student’s ability to communicate proficiently, but also places an emphasis on professional and literary communication. The Outcome also evaluates the student’s ability to properly understand the main ideas and concepts while listening in the target language. Reading and writing hold great value to this MLO, because they are forms of communications that allow students the ability to effectively communicate in a professional atmosphere. Through a completion of these four requirements students will have completed Major Learning Outcome 1 and have proven Language Proficiency and Knowledge in the desired target language. The completion of this course not only requires an immersion of the student with the target language, but also requires a great effort made towards learning traditions and the meaning behind them. This course, taught in Spanish, has been particularly important to developing the student’s comprehension of the language and the literary research abilities.