WORLD LANGUAGES & CULTURES | 3 CREDITS Spanish Novice 1 Year - 1 credit Prerequisite: None Spanish Novice 2 Year - 1 credit Prerequisite: None
Spanish Novice 1 course lays the foundation for students to learn the Spanish language and the varied cultural perspectives, practices, and products of the Hispanic world and why these matter. The course aims to develop confidence in communicative skills and cross-cultural understanding. Students begin to develop language proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the three communicative modes: interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational. Emphasis is on speaking. The basic grammar and vocabulary taught is related to expressing things that matter most to “me and those close to me”. The end of the year ACTFL oral proficiency minimum target for a novice 1 student is to ask and answer memorized questions about their life in single words and memorized phrases.
Spanish Novice 2 course continues to lay the foundation for students to learn the Spanish language and the varied and incredible cultural perspectives, practices, and products of the Hispanic world and why these matter. The course aims to develop confidence in communicative skills and cross-cultural understanding. Students begin to develop language proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in the three communicative modes: interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational. Emphasis is on speaking. The basic grammar and vocabulary taught is related to expressing things that matter most to “me and those close to me”. The end of year ACTFL oral proficiency minimum target for a novice 2 student is to speak about very familiar topics about his/her life by asking simple questions, and answering questions in phrases and some sentences.
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