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Spanish 12 Course Objectives: Interpretive Language
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Below is a list of goals for Spanish 12 student progress in interpretive language. Use this checklist as your "Progress Card" to track your development in Spanish. As you learn to do each item, note your confidence level in performing each task. You will want to practice and review these objectives repeatedly on your own, with your native-speaking conversation partner, and with your instructor.

Be sure to peruse the interpersonal and presentational objectives for the course as well.

Click here for a printable version of the entire Progress Card, with interpersonal, intrepretive and presentational objectives.

Language Learning Objectives:
Click on an objective for a list of key phrases to learn

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Examples in context
(text, audio and video samples)

 

Your confidence level:
1 (low) to
5 (high)

 

I can...

identify ideas and details in oral interactions between speakers

Ch. 5

video: debate sobre la eutenasia (España)

video: Hijos que maltratan (España)

 

follow and restate shifting topics in a conversation

Ch. 4

 



 

 

Ch. 5

text and audio files: entrevista a Quino, dibujante cómico argentino

video: Entrevista a la autora Isabel Allende

text and audio files: entrevista a Fernando Botero, artista colombiano

 

 

 

 

analyze and reflect upon the meaning of extended texts such as academic lectures, and documentary and feature films

Ch. 5

text and audio files: Frontera ajena en tierra propia: el pueblo Kuna en la frontera de Panamá y Colombia

text: Charla sobre el indigenismo en el Perú

 

 

comprehend academic presentations on a variety of topics by speakers from a variety of regions

Ch. 6

text and audio files: un antropólogo venezolano habla de los ingígenas del Orinoco

video: La depresión (España)

 

 

analyze arguments conveyed in oral presentations

Ch. 5 text and audio files: Comentarios políticos de actualidad (Perú)  

take notes on oral and written texts (e.g., articles, presentations, news reports)

Ch. 5

text and audio files: Pablo Neruda: "El poeta del amor"

text: Varios cuentos de Gabriel García Márquez

 

 

read authentic texts (texts designed for Spanish-speakers and not necessarily for language learners) and:

  text: fragmento de Un país de novela de Marcos Aguinis  

 

    read to gain information

     

 

    analyze the main ideas     and supporting data

     

 

    answer all fact-based and     most analytical reading     comprehension questions

     

 

    develop a global     understanding of the     reading, beyond initial     impressions

     

 

    connect knowledge from     texts with my academic     field and content area of     focus (e.g., culture,     international relations,     etc.) when appropriate

 

video and text files: renowned science commentator Eduard Punset interviews scientists, economists and other world authorities

text files: various world events discussed from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines

 

    using charts or outlines,     represent the sequence of     events in narratives

     

 

recognize different regional varieties and social registers (e.g., slang versus formal speech) of Spanish

 

 

Ch. 5

Dialectoteca del español

audio files: Celia Cruz, la reina de la salsa

text and audio files: entrevista a Quino, dibujante cómico argentino

video: Lo peor del amor (España)

 

 

identify the tone and stance that is typical of formal, academic writing

     

 

research information (using the Internet, library materials, newspapers, etc.) on academic topics, including my field of interest or content area of focus

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