AP SPANISH LANGUAGE (LA)

Full Year - Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Recommended: Teacher approval

Students in AP Spanish Language will refine their interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational language skills as they interact through the Spanish language in culturally authentic settings. AP Spanish Language students will continue to focus on improving comprehension, comprehensibility, vocabulary usage, cultural awareness, communication strategies, and language control as they interact with each other in class. The AP class focuses on Intermediate and Advanced communicative tasks and functions which will prepare students to take and pass the Spanish language and culture AP exam. Students who achieve Intermediate Mid and Intermediate High language proficiency typically pass the AP test. Students who pass the AP test with a 3, 4 or 5 are eligible to start the bridge program and take a 3000 level Spanish course co-taught at Timpview by a Timpview teacher and a university instructor. Students may spend more than one year in the AP Spanish Language course if desired. Course may be repeated for credit. AP means Advanced Placement and means that the AP course you are choosing is a college level class. There is an AP exam for college credit and the end of each school year in May.