1. Implications: Teach Spanish 1 authentically by effectively incorporating culture, student input, global awareness and authentic experiences to bring value language competence.
2. Spanish 1
2.1. World Languages Standards for California Schools: communication, culture, connections
2.2. Social Skills: participation of life rather than preparation & developing their role & placement in a global society.
2.3. Culture & Context: Origin of language, diversity of Spanish speakers, Geography/History of 21 Spanish speaking countries
2.4. Language Proficiency: reading, writing, grammar, syntax, semantics
3. Pedagogy
3.1. Progressivism: student centered, focus on adult functions of Adult life. John Dewey & Franklin Bobbit
3.2. As increase L2 exposure to the target language results in increased understanding of the meaning of sentences in the target language.
3.3. Vygotsky's Developmental Theory: All human cognitive processes come from social interaction and problem solving or communication.
3.4. Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics: People use language to create meanings within their social and cultural context.
3.5. Input-Interaction-Out-Put (IIO) Model: L2 learners then try out their understanding of the rules through speech or writing - output
