Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational Modes of Communication
Exploring Culture
Throughout Lingrolearning, it helped us prepare for the next class on the next lesson or assignment we had coming up. In class, after we review the material we learn the might before, we work with other students in the class to help each other understand the material together and go over what we learn to complete classwork.
Through cultural on the same site, we needed to research a specific Spanish-speaking country and find out how they were. Examples would be how they use technology and how it influenced them over the years, entertainment, art, and how they keep their community healthy. Doing this research helped us better understand Hispanic culture and showed us more than what we knew about the cultural.
Engaging in Communities
In English, give a brief description of the value of, and importance of, engaging in your immediate community and the global community.
Reflect on your experience and participation in these communities. Include artifacts such as photos, audio/video clips, etc.
A description of how I engaged in the Spanish-speaking community, would be using TalkAbroad, where you can speak with another person from a Spanish-speaking country for 15 minutes.
Interpersonal Communication
TalkAbraod is another useful way to speak to other Spanish people from other countries. It is very easy to use and the people you can talk to can help walk you through what you need to know and work with you by practicing the language. Another oral practice I did was working with a classmate to create a short video of us speaking Spanish together about a misunderstanding.
These assignments help you grow with your experience when learning a new language. It helps you have a better understanding and can help you through the language. I felt that I had excelled at my pronunciation of words and have understood when to use certain tenses after struggling to when to use them. Overcoming these difficulties was by practicing the language constantly and working with peers.
Presentational Speaking
For our projects we had to speak into a mic over a video speaking Spanish and talking about whatever topic we were assigned, such as talking about a trip we had taken in our life. After working in groups in the classroom, we would talk in front of the classroom to discuss our answers for the questions we had to answer in Spanish.
What challenged me the most in these assignments was figuring out what to say for the answers. Especially for the projects. To overcome this challenge I went back into my notes that I had taken over the years from taking Spanish and reviewing the material I previously had.
Presentational Writing
I had completed a project where we had to tell a short story in Spanish. The assignment had to be at least 200 words from what I remembered.
This assignment was my favorite one to do and was not a difficult one either. From previous assignments where we had to write had helped me prepare for this one. When it came to writing that many words, it was not that difficult considering I had to review the material I had taken before to know what I needed to write down.
Interpretive Listening
Listening activities we had I remember the most of doing was the reflections on lingrolearning. I would have to look over my classmates work and listen to how they were speaking Spanish and understand what they were saying.
What I found most interesting was being able to hear how clearly other students were speaking Spanish compared to me. My takeaway was being able to listen and understand what students were saying in Spanish from their projects.
Interpretive Reading
Same thing with the reflections in class, there were assignments where we had to read in Spanish. The story assignment, for example, was done by everyone and we had to read what they had written and reflect on the story in Spanish.
My takeaway would the same as the interpretive listening, where I was able to understand better while reading in Spanish. Interesting thing is that I feel I am a lot better at reading than I am listening to Spanish.