Credit: 1.00
Prerequisite: None
Description: Students of Level 1 Spanish communicate in the target language with other students, their teachers and occasional community speakers. Demonstrating some basic patterns of Spanish behavior and speech, they engage in social interactions and begin to use the language to obtain, process and provide information on a variety of real life topics in controlled contexts. Technology at times assists students and performance assessments reveal the ability to express elementary needs and solve simple problems. Individually and collaboratively, students listen, speak, read and write sometimes connecting with other disciplines and always growing in cross cultural awareness. Upon successful completion of Level 1, students will be well on the way to acquiring Novice mid oral proficiency as specified on the ACTFL scale.
| 1. All students use the target language to engage in social interactions in familiar, controlled settings and contexts. |
| 2. All students begin to use the target language to obtain, process, and provide information in spoken and/or written form on a variety of topics of academic, personal, and cultural interest. |
| 3. All Students imitate modeled use of the language in leisure and personal enrichment situations. |
| 4. All students begin to demonstrate knowledge of the components of the target culture and its communication patterns. |
| 5. All students will demonstrate awareness of interdisciplinary connections with the target language. |
| 6. All students will recognize and respond to authentic materials of the target language, sharing differing global perspectives through the target culture. |