ST10.1
Apply, with guidance, a variety of strategies to interpret oral and written Spanish texts and reflect on personal language learning.
Indicators for this outcome
(a) Apply, with guidance, a variety of before, during and after language learning strategies to construct meaning when listening, viewing and reading.
(b) Prepare to interpret oral and written texts using language learning strategies such as developing predictions and identifying purpose and context.
(c) Consult resources (e.g., peers and family, dictionaries, anchor charts and electronic applications) and visual aids (e.g., pictures, graphs and drawings) to help construct meaning of oral and written texts.
(d)

Apply, with guidance, language learning strategies such as:

  • using supplementary information (e.g., summary, illustrations and background information);
  • interpreting physical (e.g., gestures and facial expressions) and auditory (e.g., laughter, volume and tone) cues;
  • examining context clues and key words;
  • understanding of individual words to predict meaning of compound words; and,
  • identifying cognates from another language (e.g., magic - magia, family - familia, train - tren, sac - saco) to decipher words.
(e) Pose questions to clarify understanding.
(f) Discuss challenges of learning to interpret an additional language (e.g., tolerance of ambiguity).
(g) Reflect, with guidance, on personal viewing, listening and reading strategies.
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