Galeria de Arte y Vida

Our Objectives and Goals

The objectives at this level fall into three categories:

• oral communication,

• linguistic skills, and

• literature

It is my goal to bring students from the Novice level of  oral proficiency, where they begin to communicate using memorized material, to the Intermediate level, where they can:

• create with language

• participate in more challenging conversations

• communicate successfully in basic survival situations

Another goal is to help students to strengthen their command of spoken and written Spanish language in the following areas:

• Accuracy of expression with the basic structures learned in Levels, 1, 2, and 3

• skills in narrating past, present and future events

• ability to express feelings, opinions, and hypotheses using subjunctive and conditional constructions

For the literature component the students will be introduced to short stories in order to:

• help students appreciate short literary pieces and thus encourage  their continued study of Spanish;

• strengthen the students’ reading skills by introducing them to the prose of recognized Spanish authors