FLS231, FLS232: NATIVE SPANISH 1

The main goal for this class is to incorporate the students’ heritage language and cultural background to enhance their knowledge in listening, speaking, reading, and writing of their mother tongue. This class is intended for those students who speak Spanish using Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) or playground/cafeteria Spanish. An emphasis will be placed on developing the student’s academic language or Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) using formal/academic language. Language will be developed through reading a variety of topics from magazines, newspapers, and literature and will be expected to develop written/oral abilities by researching and presenting a topic, summarizing, and journaling. Students who expect to become truly bilingual and bicultural will benefit from this course.