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.
Credit to CSUMB Catalogue.
COURSE NARRATIVE:
This course fulfills MLO 1: Language Proficiency and was taken as part of the Fall 2019 term. This course is also a requirement to the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures major here at CSUMB.
This course was an essential aspect to the further development to my Spanish composition. This was due to the one ideal that was instilled into us from the start of the course: the idea of elevating the vocabulary. Previously, I focused on getting my thoughts and meaning across as clearly as I was able while utilizing proper grammar and making sure to put in those accents. But this course brought in the selection of more professional or more academically inclined vocabulary. At first it seemed like a simple quirk of the course (and the Professor) but soon I found that the jokes stuck and that I was using the proper words much more often than the more informal terms that I previously used.
This course was always packed with tasks since it undertakes a large number of elements that form the foundation of proper essay writing that is essential to working with the Spanish language in academic and professional settings. This professor effectively, Brough fourth the elements of various types of essays (argumentative, narrative, persuasive) in conjunction with teaching about grammar elements that we were challenged by.
I am thankful to this course and the peers I worked with for serving as an essential step towards creating more professional use of vocabulary and stepping away from the informal use of the language I was accustomed to in my regular life setting.
Included here is an example of the narrative that I created as an assignment for this course:
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.
Credit to CSUMB Catalogue.
COURSE NARRATIVE:
This course fulfills MLO 1: Language Proficiency and was taken as part of the Fall 2019 term. This course is also a requirement to the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures major here at CSUMB.
This course was an essential aspect to the further development to my Spanish composition. This was due to the one ideal that was instilled into us from the start of the course: the idea of elevating the vocabulary. Previously, I focused on getting my thoughts and meaning across as clearly as I was able while utilizing proper grammar and making sure to put in those accents. But this course brought in the selection of more professional or more academically inclined vocabulary. At first it seemed like a simple quirk of the course (and the Professor) but soon I found that the jokes stuck and that I was using the proper words much more often than the more informal terms that I previously used.
This course was always packed with tasks since it undertakes a large number of elements that form the foundation of proper essay writing that is essential to working with the Spanish language in academic and professional settings. This professor effectively, Brough fourth the elements of various types of essays (argumentative, narrative, persuasive) in conjunction with teaching about grammar elements that we were challenged by.
I am thankful to this course and the peers I worked with for serving as an essential step towards creating more professional use of vocabulary and stepping away from the informal use of the language I was accustomed to in my regular life setting.
Included here is an example of the narrative that I created as an assignment for this course:
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