Speaking Conversation Project

1. Purpose and Description of this Project

Purpose and Description

The purpose of this project is to develop your Spanish conversational skills, your cultural competence, and your cultural humility. You prepare speaking notes and then record yourself having a conversation with your instructor, a classmate, a Spanish-speaking friend, a support instructor, yourself, or an AI Chatbot. After your conversation, you reflect on your learning throughout the entire class and complete the course.

In this project, you will learn about cross-cultural communication, how to ask questions, and how to share information, feelings, and opinions. You will also learn more about using the past, present, and future in Spanish.

Project Choices

Schedule a 15-20 minute conversation meeting with your instructor.
Record a conversation between you and a Spanish-speaking friend, family member, classmate, or acquaintance.
Role-play and act out a scenario by yourself where you are two different people. You create a script and record yourself having the conversation.
Ask an AI Chatbot, like ChatGPT, to become a Spanish speaker and converse with you. Record your conversation and the transcript.

Project Tasks

Read/watch the purpose, description, tasks, learning outcomes, and choices related to the Project. Choose one of the options from the conversation choice board and schedule a meeting for your speaking conversation. (Week 6)
Read/Watch the activity about cultural competence and cultural humility. (Week 6)
Watch the video about reacting like a native speaker in Spanish (Week 6)
Watch the video about past verb tenses. (Week 6)
Prepare your speaking notes and/or transcript for major project 3. (Week 6)
✅ Tarea: Submit the Major Project 3 recording and transcript. (Week 6)
✅ Tarea: Reflect on your learning in the final class reflection journal (Week 7)
✅ Tarea: Add 3 new words to the Wordcloud (Week 7)

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.

Develop interpersonal communication skills to interact and negotiate meaning in spoken or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
- You practice sharing information, reactions, feelings, and opinions in Spanish. You ask questions to clarify meaning and learn from others.
- You communicate information on familiar topics through spoken language. You converse about a variety of familiar topics, including but not limited to daily life, hobbies, areas of study, past events, and future plans.
Improve communication across timeframes.
- You practice using timeframes in Spanish, including forms of the present, past, and/or future tenses.
Cultivate cultural competence through intercultural communication
- You share examples of cultural products, practices, and perspectives from your own culture. You ask questions about the cultures of others to enhance your cultural humility and competence.

Project Template

You can use the template to the right to design your presentation. Feel free to put your own spin on the template design, too.

To make a copy of the template, click Make a copy of the Project 3 Template Copy

Spanish Conversation Project Notes

2. Cultural Humility in Conversation

Complete the reading and video below to learn about cultural humility and competence. These activities will help provide you with background knowledge and general tips for cross-cultural communication. You can apply your learning from these readings to your conversation for major project 3.

Source Attribution: Blueprint for Success in College and Career Copyright © 2019 by Dave Dillon is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

3. Reacting like a native speaker in Spanish

Watch the video below to learn about ways to react like a native speaker in Spanish.

Source Attribution: Coffee Break Spanish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_G8tpnj47M

4. Past Verbs Review

Watch the video below to review past verb tenses we've learned in this class. You can take notes and choose some of these phrases for your speaking conversation project.

Source Attribution: EasySpanish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVRBeWBFA5I

5-6. Recording your Conversation for the Project

When you are ready, record your conversation for this project. Then, share your project with classmates and reflect on your learning.

7. Reflecting on your Learning with Journal Writing

Complete this journal after you finish the project. Reflect on your language, culture, and identity learning. You can write in Spanish, English, and/or Spanglish.

Develop interpersonal communication skills to interact and negotiate meaning in spoken or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
- Compare your Spanish speaking and conversational skills from the beginning class to the end of this class. What have been some of your major learning moments related to these skills?
- What strategies and skills have you developed for having conversations in Spanish?
Cultivate cultural competence through intercultural communication
- Compare your understanding of cultural competence and cultural humility from the beginning of this class to the end of this class. What have been some of your major learning moments?
- What are some helpful guidelines, strategies, and skills you have learned about intercultural communication?
Interact in the target language both within and beyond the classroom
- How have you interacted in Spanish in this class and outside of this class? What were your major learning moments from the major project 3 speaking conversation assessment?
- In what ways can you continue to interact in Spanish outside of this class?
Develop interpretive communication skills to understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics
- Compare your skills at reading, listening, and viewing information in Spanish from the beginning of this class to the end of this class. What have been some of your learning moments related to these skills?
- What strategies and skills have you used for understanding information in Spanish?
Develop presentational communication skills to present information, concepts, and ideas
- Compare your skills at designing presentations from the beginning of this class until the end of it. What have been some of your major learning moments when it comes to designing presentations in Spanish?
Acquire information from diverse perspectives through the target language and cultures
- Compare your understanding of the three P’s, cultural products, practices, and perspectives, from the beginning of this class until the end of it. What have been some of your major learning moments?
- What products, practices, and perspectives have you learned about from Latinx/o/a and/or Hispanic cultures?
Compare and contrast the target language and culture with your own language and culture.
- Compare your understanding of culture and language from the beginning of this class until the end of it. What have been some of your major learning moments?
- What are similarities between your culture and language and the Spanish-speaking cultures and languages you have explored?
- What are differences between your culture and language and the Spanish-speaking cultures and languages you have explored?
Learning Competency: Make connections to other disciplines to develop critical thinking
- In what ways do you see this class connecting to other fields of study? What are ways it relates to majors and careers?
- How has this class related to your own life? What similarities are there between your project and your own personal life, academics, and career?
Embrace Lifelong Learning in the Target Language for enjoyment, enrichment, and advancement
- How will you continue to study Spanish in the future? What activities, resources, and practices will you continue using?
- What are some challenges you have faced or may face when learning Spanish? How have you overcome them or plan to respond to them?
- What are your future goals as it relates to the Spanish language and Spanish-speaking cultures?
- What grade would you give yourself in this class and why?

8. Vocabulary Worcloud

Add 3 new words or phrases you learned from this project to the class wordcloud by clicking https://www.menti.com/al6k5k955imv

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