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.
All these classes helped me fulfill MLO 1: Language Proficiency. This is the most important MLO, therefore all the work I did in almost all my classes helped me accomplish this MLO. The speaking, listening, reading and writing ability was practiced in all my classes, the writing about different topics really helped me develop my writing skills. Composition/Oral practice was my first class at CSUMB, here I started expanding my writing knowledge. All the literature classes (Span 304, 321) and culture classes (Span 313, SBS 348) helped me develop my reading skills due to the large amount of readings that were assigned.