SPA 103 - Beginning Spanish for Heritage and Bilingual Learners

1. Demonstrate Spanish speaking skills by expressing events in the past and/or present tense with comprehensible grammar and pronunciation.
2. Use Spanish listening skills to identify specific details, and/or ask and respond to questions.
3. Use reading strategies to identify main ideas, cognates, sequence of events, and/or familiar words.
4. Demonstrate in written Spanish the ability to narrate in the present and/or past tense.
5. Demonstrate cultural awareness through speaking and/or writing Spanish to identify Spanish-speaking regions and countries in the world, and/or explain cultural topics.

1. Speaking
   1. Ask and answer questions about past and/or present experiences
   2. Produce intelligible pronunciation of Spanish words
   3. Produce appropriate alphabet and phoneme sounds
   4. Demonstrate appropriate use of registers by producing culturally appropriate formal and informal speech
2. Listening
   1. Identify the main idea and some detail when listening to a passage based largely on known or material
   2. Recognize the main idea and some detail of an authentic text or one not primarily based on known material
   3. Demonstrate comprehension of questions based on known topics
3. Reading
   1. Apply reading strategies to identify the main idea, recognize cognates and false cognates, and previous knowledge to make intelligent guesses
   2. Demonstrate understanding of both the main idea and some detail when reading a text based largely on known material and cognates
   3. Recognize the main idea and some detail of an authentic text or one not primarily based on known material
4. Writing Skills
   1. Apply reasonably accurate spelling including homonyms and  homophones, and understanding of common spelling mistakes (ex. Spelling with the letters “s” vs “z”, “ll” vs. “y”, etc.), and application of basic written accent marks
   2. Apply reasonably accurate grammar and punctuation (including gender and number for nouns and adjectives, verbs in indicate present and past tenses, indirect object pronouns)
   3. Formulate and/or answer questions based on known or unknown topics
   4. Write a narration in the past and/or present tense
   5. Produce (auto) biographical information
   6. Discuss preferred activities in different situations
5. Cultural Awareness
   1. Identify Spanish speaking regions throughout the world
   2. Recognize specific cultural practices
   3. Compare and contrast geographical, historical, and cultural knowledge about the Spanish speaking world
   4. Discuss current events in Spanish speaking regions
   5. Awareness and knowledge of diversity within the Hispanic community
   6. Historical process by which Hispanic immigration and presence has evolved in the United States
   7. Current cultural issues in the Hispanic and U.S. Latino communities