Swahili 3

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

On completion of the course, students will use some of the following strategies to maintain communication, but not all of the time and inconsistently, able to ask questions, ask for clarification, self-correct or restate when not understood, circumlocute, recognizes and uses some culturally appropriate vocabulary, expressions, and gestures when participating in everyday interactions. Recognizes that differences exist in cultural behaviors and perspectives and can conform in familiar situations, understands main ideas and some supporting details on familiar topics from a variety of texts; comprehends main ideas and identifies some supporting details; may show emerging evidence of the ability to make inferences by identifying key details from the text; ccomprehends information related to basic personal and social needs and relevant to one's immediate environment such as self and everyday life, school, community, and particular interests; comprehends simple stories, routine correspondence, short descriptive texts or other selections within familiar contexts; generally comprehends connected sentences and much paragraph-like discourse; comprehends information-rich texts with highly predictable order; sufficient control of language (vocabulary, structures, conventions of spoken and written language, etc.) to understand fully and with ease short, non-complex texts on familiar topics; limited control of language to understand some more complex texts; may derive meaning by comparing target language structures with those of the native language; recognize parallels in structure between new and familiar language; comprehends high frequency vocabulary related to everyday topics and high frequency idiomatic expressions; may use some or all of the following strategies to comprehend texts, able to: skim and scan; use visual support and background knowledge; predict meaning based on context, prior knowledge, and/or experience; use context clues; recognize word family roots, prefixes and suffixes. Generally relies heavily on knowledge of own culture with increasing knowledge of the target culture(s) to interpret texts that are heard, read, or viewed.