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
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 nonnatives.
Note: Final Language Proficiency is demonstrated in WLC 400: WLC Major Capstone
To satisfy this requirement, my first step was to take Spanish 301. Speaking ability 1.1. Through group activities our teacher encouraged us to have reasoning conversations, and corrected us to speak correctly. 1.2 Listening ability. Reading poems in class was usual. we read them, and then my teacher shows us its historical content. Our work then consisted in putting into practice what our teacher exhibited in class, and this was writing our own analysis of that poem. Reading ability 1.3. The task was fundamental for the success of this class, this includes reading reportage and poems for further analysis. In this way we put our reading skills into practice. Finally, Writing ability 1.4. Each week we had the assigned task of writing an essay. The way in which we improved our writing was to correct these writings after our teacher graded them. That second revision gave us the opportunity to reflect on our mistakes, and then correct them.
To generalize, in all my classes I had the opportunity to practice reading, writing, comprehension and exposition. It was mostly through writing and presentations that all these classes were required as an essential part.