Students will be evaluated along the course by a maximum of 4 activities as well as by the final comprehensive test.

In order to pass students must have a mark of, at least, 4 (of ten) in the final exam. They mus also hand in at least half the activities required. If not, the student will not be graded and will receive a "non presentado"

Students that do not pass in January may have another opportunity in July for which there will be a final test (50%) as well as one activity to be done at home(50%).

Those who are officially registered as part-time students, and have been granted
permission not to attend classes, as stipulated in the regulations of this
University, will be assessed in either of the opportunities according to the
same criteria specified for the second opportunity.

Part-time students who have been granted a "dispensa académica" must contact the teacher at the beginning of the semester in order to design the necessary changes and adjustments relating to the different activities to be acarried out along the academic year.

Learning outcomes	Study programme competences
To have a high.levelcommand, both written and oral, of the English language.	A6 A15 A18	B4
To be able to evaluate, analyse and synthesise specialised information, in particular, that relating to the pronunciation processes of the English language.	A11	B7
To be familiar with the oral variation to be found in English.	A19 A20	B8
To use bibliographical resources, databases and search engines.		B1 B2
Once they are familiar with the different resources, students should be able to learn on their own.	A14	B3
To be able to find connections with the things learnt in other subjects in the degree.		B5
To be able to organise both workload and timetable since all activities and assignments are announced beforehand.		B6 B10
To use the basic tools of ICT since many activities will be based on Moodle.		B9	C3

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Phonology and Phonetics as linguistic disciplines	1.1. Basic concepts and tools. Definition and description 1.2. Acoustic Phnetics 1.3. Auditive Phonetics 1.4. Articulatory Phonetics
2. Speech sounds and their graphic representation	2.1. Vowels and consonants: functional and articulatory classifications 2.2. IPA and its representation. Classification of speech sounds
3. Speech organs	3.1. The anatomy of speech 3.2. The phisiology of speech
4. Manner of articulation, place of articulation and voiced/voiceless sounds
5. English vowels: descrption and graphic representation	5.1. Vowels 5.2. Diphthongs and triphthongs
6. English consonants: description and graphic representation:
7. Syllables, words and connected speech.	7.1. Syllables: definition and structure 7. 2. Connected speech phenomena: Gradation. Assimilation. Elision. Juncture. Liaison.
8. Stress. Accentual patterns of English
9. The accents of English	9.1. Great Britain: Received pronunciation, Estuary English 9.2. U.S.A.: American Standard English, African-American English, American- Indian English 9.3. Australia and New Zealand 9.3. English sa a second language accents

Methodologies / tests	Competencies	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Case study	A14 A15 A18 A19 A20 B2 B5 B8	6	12	18
Guest lecture / keynote speech	A11 B7	21	42	63
Problem solving	B1 B3 B4 B9 B10 C3	7	25	32
ICT practicals	B2 B6	6	17	23
Objective test	A6 A15 A18 B5	2	6	8

Personalized attention		6	0	6

(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies	Description
Case study	This corresponds to Docencia Interactiva. In these sessions, students are expected to be able to solve particular problems such as recognition of phobetic transcriptions, identification of accents, etc.
Guest lecture / keynote speech	Lectures will take place once a week. Students are expected to participate.
Problem solving	Students will have to solve particular problems either in class or by means of the interactive platform Moodle.
ICT practicals	Students will be given exercises and activities to be carried out by means of the interactive platform Moodle.
Objective test	All students must take a final exam to test their general knowledge of the topics dealt with durting the course.

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
Problem solving	B1 B3 B4 B9 B10 C3	Students may be evaluated by collecting some of the activities they must carry out both in class or at home	30
ICT practicals	B2 B6	Students may be asked to solve some problem or do some kind of test in class, at home or on the Moodle platform. The activities carried out with the lector in the TGR classes every two weeks will be also taken into account.	20
Objective test	A6 A15 A18 B5	All students will have to sit for a final exam to be held in the official date in January . A minumum grade of 4 (out of 10) must be obtained in this test in order for the rest of the grades to be added to it.	50

Assessment comments
Students will be evaluated along the course by a maximum of 4 activities as well as by the final comprehensive test. In order to pass students must have a mark of, at least, 4 (of ten) in the final exam. They mus also hand in at least half the activities required. If not, the student will not be graded and will receive a "non presentado" Students that do not pass in January may have another opportunity in July for which there will be a final test (50%) as well as one activity to be done at home(50%). Those who are officially registered as part-time students, and have been granted permission not to attend classes, as stipulated in the regulations of this University, will be assessed in either of the opportunities according to the same criteria specified for the second opportunity. Part-time students who have been granted a "dispensa académica" must contact the teacher at the beginning of the semester in order to design the necessary changes and adjustments relating to the different activities to be acarried out along the academic year.

Basic
	GIMSON, A.C. 1989 (4th ed.). An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English . London: Edward Arnold. LADEFOGED, P. 1993 (3rd ed.). A Course in Phonetics . Fort Worth, Texas:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College.  WELLS, J. C. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Londres: Longman, any edition. Internet resources as well as on-line phonetics courses and dictinaries will be provided on Moodle
Complementary
	ALCARAZ, E. and MOODY, B. 1984 (3rded.). FonéticaInglesa para Españoles . Third Edition, 1993. Alcoy:Editobal Maffil. ASHBY, P. 1995. Speech Sounds. London: Routledge. BALL, Martin J., and RAHILLY, Joan. 1999. Phonetics . The Science ofSpeech. London: Arnold. CARR, Philip. 1999. English Phoneticsand Phonology . Oxford: Blackwell. FINCH, D.F. and ORTIZ-LIRA, H. 1982, A Course in English Pronunciation forSpanish Speakers , London:: Heinemann. GIMSON, A.C. 2001 (6th ed.). Gimson\|sPronunciation of English. 5th ed. of An Introduction to the Pronunciation ofEnglish . Revised by A. Cruttenden. London: Edward Arnold. LAROY, C. 1995. Pronunciation . Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress. MONROY CASAS, R. 1979. LaPronunciación del Inglés R.P. para Hablantes del Español. Madrid: Paraninfo. MOTT, Brian. A Course in Phonetics andPhonology for Spanish Learners of English . Barcelona: PPU Universitas 7. ROGERS, Henry. 2000. The Sounds of Language. An Introduction to Phonetics . Essex: Pearson Education Ltd.

Other comments
A good command of English is required since grammatical mistakes, non-English word order and lack of concordance will be penalised.