Stanford Spanish Language Program




	Spanish 11 Course Objectives: Presentational Language

Overview

Cultural Emphasis Track

International Relations Track

Spanish for Home-Background Speakers

Office of Accessible Education

Below is a list of goals for Spanish 11 student progress in presentation 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 interpretive 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	Relevant pages in textbook	Examples in context (texto, audio and video samples)	Your confidence level: 1 (low) to 5 (high)
I have...
become aware of and begun to employ appropriate (oral and written) presentational language
I can...
prepare oral and written presentations using authentic materials		text: editorial by Mario Vargas Llosa on urban renewal in Panamá
give rehearsed presentations, using some notes, of 10-15 minutes in length
answer questions about the presentation topic
orally summarize main points of authentic texts (both oral and written) and of class discussions
often summarize extemporaneously
write short reports in response to oral texts
write 3-page papers in expository prose
write a persuasive paper stating and supporting an opinion
correct my writing much more often than I used to be able to
use a dictionary to check my choice of words or phrases		wordreference.com Diccionario de la Real Academia Española
edit my papers for common mistakes