SW Florida Spanish

Advanced Spanish
Outcomes & Topics

Introduction

Advanced Spanish offers learners an opportunity to practice speaking and listening skills and to learn other aspects of the Spanish language. Emphasis is on conversational activities. Reading comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar are also incorporated. 

Advanced outcomes and associated topics to achieve them are included below. Topics are derived from various Spanish Practice Makes Perfect books and other instructional resources. The topics are a representative sample. Others are included depending on learner interests and instructor assessment of learner needs.

Advanced-level classes are conducted entirely in Spanish.  

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Moving from intermediate to advanced level

It is common for learners to be reluctant to move from intermediate to advanced. Reasons include feeling like they are not ready, reluctance to leave friends behind with whom they have established strong social bonds, and feeling intimidated about meeting and working with more experienced advanced-level participants. 

Advanced learners are still learning Spanish. They remember their own journey from beginner to advanced and are warmly welcoming to newcomers. 

If the ultimate objective is to be able to listen to, understand, and speak in Spanish and engage in spontaneous conversation, learners need to enroll in advanced classes when they have achieved the intermediate outcomes.

 

Outcome & Topic List Uses

Like the beginner and intermediate topics lists, the advanced list can be used to self-assess comfort-level with and understanding of each topic. Self-assessment results help instructors determine topics to include when they develop instructional plans. 

Instructors use this information to develop lesson plans and track student progress.

 

Outcomes

Advanced level Spanish is designed to help learners master more advanced grammatical concepts and to advance their conversational Spanish capabilities. 

• Vocabulary and Comprehension: Has comprehensive vocabulary. Needs to translate words occasionally, but can listen to or read passages without needing to do extensive translation. Can read and demonstrate comprehension of various written forms including newspapers, printed and electronic articles and letters, and literature. Can use both simple and more complex Spanish language and idiomatic expressions. Understands many colloquial and idiomatic expressions.

• Grammar: Comfortable learning advanced grammatical concepts. Understand and can use subjunctive and imperative moods, passive constructions, and perfect tenses.

• Verbs:

  • Able to use all forms of the subjunctive verb tense. Can properly use vocabulary and a variety of verb tenses in the indicative mood (present, preterit, imperfect, future, conditional, perfect) as well as the present, past and perfect tenses of the subjunctive mood.

• Conversation: Can comfortably listen to, understand, and converse with others in Spanish. Can describe and narrate past experiences using the preterite and imperfect tenses. Understands and can use the present subjunctive tense. Able to converse in and comprehend Spanish with an increasing awareness and control of grammatical tenses and moods about personal topics such as personal preferences and opinions, accomplishments, make requests, and discuss future plans.