Student Learning Outcomes 1. Students can participate in conversations on a number of familiar topics using simple sentences.
2. Students can handle short social interactions in everyday situations by asking and answering simple questions.
3. Students can present basic information on familiar topics using language they have practiced using phrases and simple sentences.
4. Students can write briefly about most familiar topics and present information using a series of simple sentences.
5. Students can understand the main idea in short, simple messages and presentations on familiar topics.
6. Students can understand the main idea of simple conversations that they overhear.
7. Students can understand the main idea of short and simple texts when the topic is familiar.Course Description Designed for students with some degree of exposure to Spanish in high school and/or at home, this course continues to develop basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills and basic intercultural competence in interpretive, interpersonal and presentational modes of communication based at the Novice High Level of proficiency based on ACTFL guidelines, although a few abilities may emerge in the Intermediate Low Level. Students in this course communicate in Spanish in familiar topics using a variety of words, phrases, simple sentences and questions that have been highly practiced and memorized.