MLO 5: Cultural Internalization and Language Immersion
Students demonstrate that they have actively immersed themselves in authentic Hispanic cultural and linguistic environments and have internalized the language and cultural experience, from which they have developed personal understanding and new perspectives of Hispanic communities.
Note: Students develop intercultural communication skills and strategies, and learn to adapt and respond in effective ways. This MLO may be fulfilled by a study abroad experience or equivalent. Courses taken in a study abroad program may count toward another MLO. Students who choose Pathway 2 will be working on a community project to fulfill this requirement.
Reflection:
Since I didn’t have the opportunity to study abroad, I decided to do the Community Project ( path way 2). I actively immersed myself in a topic that is a concern for our Hispanic community. My main focus in this community project is a very relevant topic here in the United States. I decided to do this project because in the community where I live, there are many immigrants who speak Spanish like native speaker, but they acquired the language Spanish with their parents in their home until they go to school and begin to learn English, so they speak Spanish very well but they need to be better in their writing skill, and also because they want to know more about their culture through their heritage language. I wanted to learn more about this important topic in our community so I decided to be an assistant teacher in a Spanish classroom in MPC for Heritage students of Spanish. It was a unique experience since it gave me the opportunity to learn more about what those students need to do better writing productions. This project helped me analyze this issue of community group frillier, it was very interesting.
Since I didn’t have the opportunity to study abroad, I decided to do the Community Project ( path way 2). I actively immersed myself in a topic that is a concern for our Hispanic community. My main focus in this community project is a very relevant topic here in the United States. I decided to do this project because in the community where I live, there are many immigrants who speak Spanish like native speaker, but they acquired the language Spanish with their parents in their home until they go to school and begin to learn English, so they speak Spanish very well but they need to be better in their writing skill, and also because they want to know more about their culture through their heritage language. I wanted to learn more about this important topic in our community so I decided to be an assistant teacher in a Spanish classroom in MPC for Heritage students of Spanish. It was a unique experience since it gave me the opportunity to learn more about what those students need to do better writing productions. This project helped me analyze this issue of community group frillier, it was very interesting.