Student Portfolio
The new Student Portfolio is an integrated digital tool that allows students to curate a collection of work showcasing their language learning progress, growth, and achievements over time. These collections illustrate the student’s experience and the products of their learning, becoming meaningful through reflection, which facilitates students' understanding of their learning and what they can do with the language.
- Measure and demonstrate proficiency growth by identifying skill gaps to enable improvement.
- Export portfolios for future education, reflection, or employment opportunities.
- Foster a sense of community with instructor and peer commenting.
Expanded Media Content Encourages Students to Interact with the Language
- New Fotonovela serves to contextualize grammar topics and vocabulary, helping students develop an intercultural competency that deepens their language skills.
- Four new Cinemateca short films that let students see and hear Spanish in its authentic context, and new integrated viewing activites in all films which allow students to check their comprehension as they watch the films.
- Four new literary readings offer a wide selection of authors and genres to engage students with authentic literature and new En detalle videos that allow students to listen to native speakers as audio-sync highlighting of sentences guides their eyes.
- Six new cultural readings within Cultura and En detalle that acknowledge and celebrate the diversity of Spanish-speaking cultures.
Project-Focused Learning Track
Incorporated into every lesson, the Project-Focused Learning Track includes assignable tasks in every lesson with rubric grading. Students answer an essential question by completing authentic tasks that improve students’ research, language, and communication skills, such as writing a report on a cultural event, making learning meaningful. Through sustained investigation, reflection, and peer-reviewed tasks, students engage in Spanish-language media exploration, while developing their personal interests and communication skills, and engaging with the global community.
Group and Individual Video Recording Submission Expands Student Production
Group chat and individual video recording activities allow single or multiple students to record a video production exercise, providing instructors with more flexibility in creating and assigning activities to groups within their classes.
Group chat offers valuable practice that simulates the conversations most typical to a language classroom. These activities also ready students for authentic communication with native speakers, which typically occurs in a group setting.
Assignable Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs)
New assignable IPAs use authentic cultural content, complete with rubric grading and video upload. These assessments measure student progress toward proficiency in the three modes of communication: interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational.
Communicative Goals and Can-Do Statements Build Students’ Confidence
Communicative Goals are now listed at the beginning of each section. After the activities in that section, the “I can” statement reminds students which goal they achieved. At the end of the lesson, a summary presents the Communicative Goals achieved, along with a review activity for each goal. Annotations to the Instructor indicate the correlation to the ACTFL standards.
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