Standard 1.3 Students present information, concepts, and ideas in Spanish to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics. Standard 3.2 Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the Spanish language and its cultures. Standard 4.1 Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons between Spanish and English. Comprehension will be increasingly independent of subject matter knowledge. Student will demonstrate an emerging ability to write about abstract topics and defend a point of view.
Writing is comprehensible to native speakers unaccustomed to dealing with foreigners.
Speech is comprehensible to native speakers unaccustomed to dealing with foreigners. The student will be able to write, in Spanish, several articles for a newletter and will translate a filmscript. Using Spanish with proper language, vocabulary, and documentation. The student will understand the relationship between the cultural materials studied and the Spanish cultures. The student will use Spanish in the actual cultural setting among the Latino population of Carrollton.