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Formal Writing (Integrated Skills)
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The fourth part of the writing section will reflect an integration of the following skills: listening, reading, and writing (an example of the interpretive and presentational modes). Students will be required to read two documents, listen to a related source/recording, and respond to a written prompt. All sources, both written and aural, will be authentic -- either in their original format or re-recorded. Students will be encouraged to make reference to and cite all of the sources. Students will have 7 minutes to read the printed sources and then will listen to a stimulus of approximately 3 minutes. After listening to the prompt, students will have 5 minutes to plan their responses and 40 minutes to write their essays. The total time allotted for this section will be approximately 55 minutes.
What's Different?/Changes to Writing
(See Task A materials below)
- Writing will be based on reading and listening.
- Students will synthesize information presented in written and oral stimuli.
- There will be more writing tasks overall.
Evidence
The AP Spanish Language student can:
- Write a cohesive and coherent analytical or persuasive essay in reaction to a text or on a personal, academic, cultural, or social issue, with control of grammar and syntax.
- Use information from sources provided to present a synthesis and express an opinion.
- Recognize cultural elements implicit in oral and written texts.
- Interpret linguistic cues to infer social relationships.
- Use language that is semantically and grammatically accurate according to a given context.
- Identify and summarize the main points and important details and make appropriate inferences and predictions from a written text such as a newspaper or magazine article or a contemporary literary excerpt.
- Identify and summarize the main points and significant details and make appropriate inferences and predictions from a spoken source, such as a broadcast news report or a lecture, on an academic or cultural topic related to the Spanish-speaking world.
Field Test Materials: Task A
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