Student Outcomes for Spanish Language
Advanced Level
Skills:
1. Production
WRITTEN
- Can use expressions to make a judgement or to evaluate.
- The effective use of words that render an argument more organized and effective.
- Able to write, contrast, and compare ideas.
- Able to use speech markers to indicate a logical sequence.
- Make recommendations and give advice.
- Use polite formulas.
- React to a protest or a complaint.
- Express resignation, hope, fear, obligation and prohibition.
- Effectively express different feelings.
- Add information.
- Express the processes experimented by people or things.
ORAL
- Use correct expressions to judge and evaluate and provide a logical sequence.
- Be able to compliment people or actions and to provide supporting arguments.
- Can formulate well organized hypotheses.
- Express different feelings.
- Ask for clarification, add information or correct information.
- React before a claim.
2. Comprehension
WRITTEN
- Be able to comprehend sophisticated writing that requires logical and critical reading.
- Be able to understand writing with formulaic segments that indicate politeness.
- Be to read sophisticated texts that provide a judgement of values.
- Be able to understand resignation, fear, hope, desperation, complaints.
ORAL
- Understands argumentation and how complements for emphasis are used.
- Understands statements judging and making recommendations.
- Understands complex statements related to argumentation and reasoning.
- Understands indirect style.
3. Interaction
ORAL
- Conduct a conversation with arguments and debate.
- Respond to compliments and allow for turn-taking in the conversation.
- Be able to produce subtle statements of recommendation.
- Transmit accurate information and respond to complaints and argumentation.
- Respond to complex questions.
- Be able to make oneself understood using complex phrases.
CHAT / BLOG
- Conduct a well structured debate.
- Propose and defend a hypothesis.
- Be able to project a discursive logical path.
- Transmit complex descriptions.
- Respond to dense arguments and questions.
- Be able to understand and respond using indirect style.
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