QUALIFICATION

For the student to qualify as APPROVED (and above) the following cases (1) shall be the average endnote exceeds 50% of the course (2) and at least (a) exceeds the theoretical and practical examination May 1st.

The student will be graded as SUSPENSO when (1) the final average grade is less than 50% of the course (2) and does not meet the above criteria.

The student will be graded as absent, when you have delivered = / - 50% of course exercises and / or has not been present at any of the written tests.

DATES AND TIMES OF FINAL EXAM

The dates and times of examinations in official announcements will be approved by the faculty and published for each academic year prior to the beginning of it.

LINGUISTIC ACCURACY

Both the theoretical and practical examination, such as group work and laboratory practices must meet the minimum requirements of linguistic correctness (spelling and grammar, punctuation, syntax concordance, lexical precision, or formal register). The level in English language expected of students is equivalent to an acceptable level for the third year. Deficiencies in this area will be penalized in qualifying.

CALL FOR JULY

The labs will be delivered the day of the written exam. If the student has given these two practices during the academic year you will not have to repeat the call for July. The same will happen with individual work. If the student has given this group work throughout the academic year you will not have to repeat the call for July.

Students who have been granted exemption,as specified in the university regulations, will be assessed according to thecriteria applied to the July opportunity.

Students sitting the December exam (final exam broughtforward) will be assessed according to the criteria specified for the Julyopportunity.

Essays and written work may be tested through Turnitin in order to detect wrong citations, plagiarism or any other type of fraud. Should this occur, the rules for plagiarism will be applied. (Normasde avaliación, revisión e reclamación das cualificacións dos estudos de grao emestrado universitario). Turnitin recognises papers previously turned in by other people (or the student him/herself) at this university or other universities, as well as other material found on Internet.

Learning outcomes	Study programme competences
	A1 A11		C2
	A1 A15		C7
	A14	B2
	A3 A20
	A1	B2	C6
	A1	B2
	A1 A3	B2
	A3 A19	B10
	A6 A18 A19	B2 B8
	A19 A20	B3 B4
		B1 B2
		B2 B5
		B2 B7
		B2
	A1	B2
	A3	B9
		B2
	A1 A3	B2 B6
To use the basic tools of ICT since many activities will be based on Moodle.		B2	C3
	A6

Topic	Sub-topic
The speech chain and phonetics	The speech chain and speech technologies The speech chain and teaching Speech technologies
Theoretical and descriptive study of phonetics and phonology of English.	Contextualization. RP Estuary English
Speech: the production process	The acquisition of phonology in L1 and L2: acquisition, interaction, and methods.
Anatomy and physiology of speech production. Speech organs.	Anatomy and Physiology Anatomical basis of phonation Physiological basis of phonation Definition of voice. Voice types.
Articulatory phonetics	Vowel sounds Consonant sounds The sounds of RP The sounds of American English The sounds of Spanish
Description and classification of English sounds: vowels, consonants, diphthongs, triphthongs.	Phonetic transcription Error correction Computer assisted Phonetics
Acoustic Phonetics: Sounds, Sound Waves, spectrograms.	Analysis of the acoustic signal and processing Acoustic properties of sounds Analysis and manipulation of sounds
The structure of language: phonemes, allophones stress, rhythm, intonation.	Prosody, stress, tempo and rhythm: General concepts, linguistic function and classification Intonation: general concepts, suprasegments, melody and its representation
Strong and weak forms:	Neutralization of weak forms phonetic variations variations allophonic Variations place Nasalización and labialisation Elision Liaison Joint

Methodologies / tests	Competencies	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Case study	A6 A11 A15 B2 B6 C6	14	16	30
Guest lecture / keynote speech	A1 A3 A11 A15 B4 B8 B9 C7	22	20	42
Problem solving	A14 B2 B5 B6 B7 B10 C2	14	11	25
ICT practicals	B1 B2 B3 B7	24	15	39
Glossary	A19 A20 B1 B6 C3 C7	0	5	5
Objective test	A1 A3 A6 A15 A18 A19 A20 B2 B4 C2	3	0	3

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	Classes will be held in a classroom designated for that purpose, where the remaining topics and subtopics of the contents of the subject, paying particular attention to activities around the phonetic transcription in English.
Guest lecture / keynote speech	Weekly keynote sessions with the whole group. In these sessions the basics of a theoretical mode will be exhibited, although supported by practical examples on the computer platform, to move progressively to increase the component of practical work in mode "learning by doing", gradually reducing the explanatory theoretical component and incorporating self-learning modules from a balance of 1 / 2T + 1 / 2P to 1P.
Problem solving	They exercises will deal with the problems during laboratory practices.
ICT practicals	Weekly sessions with two intermediate groups Interactive Teaching practice. Classes will be held at the Language Laboratory and the Laboratory of Phonetics, which will practice those topics and subtopics of the contents of the subject in need of computer support.
Glossary	Glossary is a resource that explains and contextualizes terms related to the field in order to facilitate the understanding concepts.
Objective test	The objective test consists of theoretical questions about phonetics, a phonemic transcription of a written text and a transcription of an English recorded passage.

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
ICT practicals	B1 B2 B3 B7	Class participation and completion and delivery of the practices carried out in the Laboratory. No practices will be collected from those students who do not attend the laboratory. Not counted deliver less than 2 labs	20
Case study	A6 A11 A15 B2 B6 C6	Realization and delivery of tasks whose realization has begun in class and must be delivered to the teacher for monitoring	20
Objective test	A1 A3 A6 A15 A18 A19 A20 B2 B4 C2	A written test in which the theoretical knowledge acquired by students (30%), and various exercises around the phonemic transcription (30%) will be evaluated. The student must obtain at least 5 marks out of the final result in this part in order to pass the subject. The objective test consists of theoretical questions about phonics, a phonemic transcription of a written text and the transcription of a listening.	60

Assessment comments
QUALIFICATION For the student to qualify as APPROVED (and above) the following cases (1) shall be the average endnote exceeds 50% of the course (2) and at least (a) exceeds the theoretical and practical examination May 1st. The student will be graded as SUSPENSO when (1) the final average grade is less than 50% of the course (2) and does not meet the above criteria. The student will be graded as absent, when you have delivered = / - 50% of course exercises and / or has not been present at any of the written tests. DATES AND TIMES OF FINAL EXAM The dates and times of examinations in official announcements will be approved by the faculty and published for each academic year prior to the beginning of it. LINGUISTIC ACCURACY Both the theoretical and practical examination, such as group work and laboratory practices must meet the minimum requirements of linguistic correctness (spelling and grammar, punctuation, syntax concordance, lexical precision, or formal register). The level in English language expected of students is equivalent to an acceptable level for the third year. Deficiencies in this area will be penalized in qualifying. CALL FOR JULY The labs will be delivered the day of the written exam. If the student has given these two practices during the academic year you will not have to repeat the call for July. The same will happen with individual work. If the student has given this group work throughout the academic year you will not have to repeat the call for July. Students who have been granted exemption,as specified in the university regulations, will be assessed according to thecriteria applied to the July opportunity. Students sitting the December exam (final exam broughtforward) will be assessed according to the criteria specified for the Julyopportunity. Essays and written work may be tested through Turnitin in order to detect wrong citations, plagiarism or any other type of fraud. Should this occur, the rules for plagiarism will be applied. (Normasde avaliación, revisión e reclamación das cualificacións dos estudos de grao emestrado universitario). Turnitin recognises papers previously turned in by other people (or the student him/herself) at this university or other universities, as well as other material found on Internet.

Basic
	Collins, Beverley, and Inger Mees. Practical Phonetics and Phonology: A Resource Book for Students. London: Routledge, 2008. Roach, Peter. English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Wells, J. C. LongmanPronunciation Dictionary. Londres: Longman, any edition.
Complementary
	Ashby, M.; J. Maidment. Introducing Phonetic Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Baken, R. J. Clinical measurement of speech and voice. San Diego, CA: Singular Pub. Group, 1996. Barry, W.J. and W. A. Van Dommelen  (eds.) The Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology, Dordrecht , Springer, 2005. Bell, A. “Radio: The style of news language” Journal of Communication 32 (1982): 150-164. Borden, G.J.; Harris, K.S.; Raphael, L.J. Speech Science Primer. Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception of Speech, Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1994. Brown, A. (Ed.) Teaching English Pronunciation: A Book of Readings. London: Routledge, 1991. Cowie, R. and Cornelius, R.R. “Describing the emotional states that are expressed in speech.” Speech Communication Special Issue on Speech and Emotion, 40,1- 2(2003): 5-32. Eckert, P. and J. Rickford (eds) Style and Sociolinguistic Variation. Cambridge: CUP, 2001. Hart, J., Collier, R., and Cohen, A. A perceptual study of intonation. An experimental-phonetic approach to speech melody, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Holmes, J. N. and Holmes, W. Speech Synthesis and Recognition. London, Taylor & Francis, 2001. IPA. Handbook of the International Phonetic Asociation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999. Kent, R. D.; Read, Ch. The Acoustic Analysis of Speech, San Diego, Singular Publishing Group, Inc, 1992. Kohler, K. J. (ed.). “Rhythm in Speech and Language. From Theory to Data”, Phonetica 66, 1-2 (2009). Kuhl, P. K. “Early language acquisition.” Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 5, 2004: 831- 43. Ladefoged, P. and Maddieson, I. The Sounds of the World's Languages. Blackwell, Oxford, 1996. Leather, J. Phonological Issues in Second Language Learning. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. Lleó, C. La adquisición de la fonología de la primera lengua y de las lenguas extranjeras. Madrid: Visor, 1997. Martínez Celdrán, E. Análisis espectrográfico de los sonidos del habla, Barcelona, Ariel, 2007. Moore, B.J.C. An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing. Amsterdam. Academic Press, 2003. Thomas, E. R. “Instrumental Phonetics”, en Chambers, J. K., Trudgill, P., Shilling-Estes, N. (eds.): The handbook of language variation and change. Malden, Ma: Blackwell, 2004. Titze, I. Principles of Voice Production. Prentice Hall, 1994. VVAA. “Disorders of speech and language.” In: Principles of Neurologiy. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2005.

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