Zamora-Melgoza: MLO2
MLO 2: Language and Linguistics Proficiency
As a CSUMB undergraduate Spanish major student I have had the opportunity to explore various topics related to this language, topics including that of understanding its structure both written and orally. Although I am a native Spanish speaker I was not aware of the languages’ structures, for me it was something that came automatically, therefore, I had to take various lower division courses to build up my general knowledge about this topic. Some of the lower division classes that I took include Spanish 101, 201, and 213. These three courses gave me the base to continue with my upper division Spanish course work by providing me with the grammatical rules and structure of Spanish (verb conjugation, accentuation rules, etc.). After having built my general knowledge with these lower division courses I moved on into taking Spanish 301 and Spanish 313, both of these courses gave me the sufficient tools and knowledge to thoroughly understand the languages’ structure as well as to become a better writer and understand the differences amongst Spanish from different places around the world.
Spanish 301, Composition/Oral Practice, was a course that I really enjoyed because it gave me the opportunity to continue building and developing my knowledge about communicating in Spanish, especially when it comes to writing. In this course I learned how to compose a good essay, and how to express my ideas clearly and concisely. Furthermore, it allowed me to express who I was through writing essays about topics that were interesting and I was passionate about. Amongst the papers that I enjoyed writing the most and that contributed to broadening my knowledge about writing in Spanish are three short essays: “El regalo que jamás olvidaré, “Carta a un amigo”, and “Construyendo un hogar. These three papers gave me the opportunity to develop topics that were interesting to write about and also different from what I had done in the past.
Spanish 313, Introduction to Spanish Linguistics, was a particularly interesting and somewhat challenging class because it was something that I had never studied before. Here I learned about the Spanish sound system (phonetics and phonology), its structure of words (morphology), and its structure of sentences (syntax). In addition I also learned about bilingualism and Spanish in the United States, as well as how Spanish is spoken and written differently by various social groups (sociolinguistics) and in various Spanish-speaking countries (dialectology). Amongst the projects that I enjoyed doing the most and that contributed to expanding my knowledge about the structure of spoken Spanish are a Bilingualism/Spanish in the US project and the Spanish amongst different socioeconomic groups in Dominican Republic. In the Bilingualism/Spanish in the U.S project I studied the spoken Spanish from an individual who had lived in the U.S. his entire life. This helped me understand and see the differences between native and non-native Spanish speakers. In the Spanish amongst different socioeconomic groups in Dominican Republics I studied audios, videos, twitter messages, and even they lyrics from songs to see how a language changes from one socioeconomic group to another. In addition to these two projects I also learned about the articulatory system, which gave me the opportunity to learn in what part of our mouth we articulate each sound, and I also learned how to transcribe words.
Work samples.
SPAN 301:
Construyendo un hogar
Machuca
El regalo que jamas olvidare
Fusion de culturas
SPAN 313:
Examen
Examen 2
Dominican Republic
Linguistics (powerpoint)
Linguistics project 1
Linguitics project 2
As a CSUMB undergraduate Spanish major student I have had the opportunity to explore various topics related to this language, topics including that of understanding its structure both written and orally. Although I am a native Spanish speaker I was not aware of the languages’ structures, for me it was something that came automatically, therefore, I had to take various lower division courses to build up my general knowledge about this topic. Some of the lower division classes that I took include Spanish 101, 201, and 213. These three courses gave me the base to continue with my upper division Spanish course work by providing me with the grammatical rules and structure of Spanish (verb conjugation, accentuation rules, etc.). After having built my general knowledge with these lower division courses I moved on into taking Spanish 301 and Spanish 313, both of these courses gave me the sufficient tools and knowledge to thoroughly understand the languages’ structure as well as to become a better writer and understand the differences amongst Spanish from different places around the world.
Spanish 301, Composition/Oral Practice, was a course that I really enjoyed because it gave me the opportunity to continue building and developing my knowledge about communicating in Spanish, especially when it comes to writing. In this course I learned how to compose a good essay, and how to express my ideas clearly and concisely. Furthermore, it allowed me to express who I was through writing essays about topics that were interesting and I was passionate about. Amongst the papers that I enjoyed writing the most and that contributed to broadening my knowledge about writing in Spanish are three short essays: “El regalo que jamás olvidaré, “Carta a un amigo”, and “Construyendo un hogar. These three papers gave me the opportunity to develop topics that were interesting to write about and also different from what I had done in the past.
Spanish 313, Introduction to Spanish Linguistics, was a particularly interesting and somewhat challenging class because it was something that I had never studied before. Here I learned about the Spanish sound system (phonetics and phonology), its structure of words (morphology), and its structure of sentences (syntax). In addition I also learned about bilingualism and Spanish in the United States, as well as how Spanish is spoken and written differently by various social groups (sociolinguistics) and in various Spanish-speaking countries (dialectology). Amongst the projects that I enjoyed doing the most and that contributed to expanding my knowledge about the structure of spoken Spanish are a Bilingualism/Spanish in the US project and the Spanish amongst different socioeconomic groups in Dominican Republic. In the Bilingualism/Spanish in the U.S project I studied the spoken Spanish from an individual who had lived in the U.S. his entire life. This helped me understand and see the differences between native and non-native Spanish speakers. In the Spanish amongst different socioeconomic groups in Dominican Republics I studied audios, videos, twitter messages, and even they lyrics from songs to see how a language changes from one socioeconomic group to another. In addition to these two projects I also learned about the articulatory system, which gave me the opportunity to learn in what part of our mouth we articulate each sound, and I also learned how to transcribe words.
Work samples.
SPAN 301:
Construyendo un hogar
Machuca
El regalo que jamas olvidare
Fusion de culturas
SPAN 313:
Examen
Examen 2
Dominican Republic
Linguistics (powerpoint)
Linguistics project 1
Linguitics project 2
