Second Language Proficiency

INTA outcome 5: Acquire Oral Proficiency in a Second Language

What languages do you know?

Use the guiding questions listed in the Experiences and Skills overview for additional prompts to help you describe your foreign language skills.

What is your foreign language experience?

    • What language(s) did you speak growing up?

    • Why did you decide to learn another language(s)?

    • What other languages do you understand? speak? read? write?

    • Why did you choose to learn this particular language(s)?

    • In which of these languages do you consider yourself fluent?

How did you learn another language?

    • What steps did you take to learn to speak and write a foreign language?

    • What strategies did you find most effective? Why?

    • What challenges do you still face regarding the new language(s) you are learning?

What is the broader impact of your foreign language experience?

  • How has knowing another language affected your relationships with those from other cultures?

    • How has it impacted your worldview?

How do others view your language proficiency?

    • Have you passed a foreign language test?

    • How were your foreign language skills assessed?

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Write a reflection that addresses these questions. Demonstrate your language competency by translating the reflection or your biography into another language.

Optional: Provide a video or audio file of your biography (or another topic) spoken in another language.