Purpose and Description of this Project

For this final class project, you add to your personal language learning toolkit and complete a reflection on your language learning throughout this class. You reflect on your linguistic identity and how you’ve improved your skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing in the language. You also enhance your linguistic awareness by making cross-content connections to your field and exploring resources to help you become a lifelong learner of Spanish beyond this class. 

Project Tasks

1. Read about metalinguistic awareness and metacognition as it relates to language learning.

2. Explore resources and add your favorite activities from this class to your language learning toolkit. Add them to your language learning toolkit: 

   • Resources for reading, listening, speaking, and writing in Spanish

   • Technology tools for language learning

   • Linguistic comparisons, vocabulary, and academic connections. 

3. ✅ Present Major Project 3: Language Learning Toolkit

4. ✅ Complete the Final Learning Reflection Journal 

Learning Outcome Checklist for this Project

This is the learning checklist you can use to evaluate yourself on this project. If there are parts of the checklist that you would like to change, feel free to modify it and add to it to fit your learning style and language level. 

1. Develop interpersonal communication skills to interact in spoken or written conversations in Spanish.  

   • Your final project and reflection describe strategies and skills you have developed for interacting in spoken or written conversations in Spanish. You give examples of assignments and projects that show your development of these skills. 

2. Develop interpretive communication skills to understand what is heard, read, or viewed in Spanish.

   • Your final project and reflection describe strategies and skills you have developed for understanding what is heard, read, or viewed in Spanish. You give examples of how you have developed interpretive skills in this course.

3. Develop linguistic awareness of Spanish through cross-content connections and critical thinking

   • Your project includes reflections on your linguistic identity and awareness. You recognize connections between languages, cultures, and academic disciplines. You specify ways language awareness can support critical thinking and learning in other fields. 

4. Construct strategies for lifelong language learning in Spanish.

   • You develop a toolkit of strategies and resources for continuing your language learning beyond the classroom. You make a plan for future communication with Spanish speakers and continued practice speaking, listening, reading, writing, and vocabulary/grammar. 

1. Metalinguistic Awareness & Metacognition 

Scroll and Skim the readings below to learn about metalinguistic awareness, metalinguistic awareness, and critical sociocultural linguistic literacy. These concepts connect to Spanish learning and lifelong language study. You can use these guiding questions to help you focus your reading and apply them to Project 3.

1. What is metalinguistic awareness? In what ways do you see this awareness connecting to language learning?

2. What is metacognition? How can metacognition be used to help you learn language? How does it connect to yourself as a student and your learner identity?

3. What is critical sociocultural linguistic literacy? What are its underlying principles? How does it relate to the Spanish language?

3. Presenting and Discussing your Project

When you are ready, share your project with others and listen to their projects. You can find a friend, classmate, family member, instructor, or anyone willing to listen. Deliver your presentation to them and keep the conversation going by receiving feedback and asking questions.