CSET Spanish (145, 146, 147) case studies
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The CSET Spanish (World Languages: Spanish) is a California subject-matter examination used to demonstrate the knowledge required to teach Spanish in California public schools. It is taken mainly by candidates for a Single Subject Teaching Credential in World Languages: Spanish and by credentialed teachers adding a Spanish authorization, and some private and charter schools also accept it as evidence of subject-matter competence. The CSET Spanish (145, 146, 147) case studies are 5 cases and about 4,187 words.
1Three First Graders, Three Error Patterns
Aguilar coordinates a 90:10 dual-immersion program and is reviewing first-quarter oral language samples from three first graders. Child A, born in Michoacán and schooled in Spanish since kindergarten, says haiga for haya, vinistes, dijieron, and nadies.
857 words, about 4 min2Tense, Aspect, and Role in a Hospital Interpretation
At a county hospital, interpreter Núria is rendering a pre-surgery intake. The patient says: "No sabía que tenía que ayunar." Later the nurse says: "I was going to ask you about allergies, but the chart was blank." The patient responds: "Si lo hubiera sabido, se lo habría dicho a alguien." Asked whether she has ever had trouble waking from anesthesia, the patient answers with an anecdote that begins: "Cuando me operaron del apéndice, hace unos años..." Midway through, the nurse says, "Don't interpret all that - just summarize for me in the third person whether she's had a reaction." Núria has ten seconds to decide what to do.
716 words, about 4 min3Two Readings of an Unreliable Narrator
Duarte's Spanish 4 class has just finished a short story narrated by a live-in governess who repeatedly calls her employer's household "perfectamente tranquila" while recounting small cruelties: a child locked out on a cold afternoon "para que aprendiera," a servant's wages quietly withheld. Half the class reads the narrator as reliable; half as self-deceived.
809 words, about 4 min4"Poco respetuosa": Reading a Register Conflict
Okafor, a teacher from Texas, begins a yearlong post at a secondary school in Sevilla. In her first week she addresses the sixty-year-old director with tú and a first-name greeting, opens a department meeting with "¿Qué onda, gente?", and arrives twenty-five minutes late to a dinner at a colleague's home, bringing a bottle of wine.
861 words, about 4 min5Field-Testing an Authentic Listening Quiz
Peña wants a ten-item listening comprehension quiz for Spanish 3. He selects a three-minute clip from a Buenos Aires podcast in which two friends discuss a soccer match: voseo ("¿vos viste?"), sheísmo (lluvia and llave realized with a voiced fricative), rapid speech, laughter, and one overlapping exchange.
944 words, about 5 min