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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Galego e Portugués: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
 Free election credit |
| English Language 1 |
| Assessment |
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| Identifying Data | 2017/18 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | English Language 1 | Code | 613G01003 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
First | FB | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Methodologies | Competencies | Description | Qualification |
| Workbook | A6 A11 B1 B3 B6 C2 | A minimum of two stories in English will be provided for students to read. Students will have to answer some questions about these texts. They will also do at least one general reading comprehension task in the reading section of the official exam. |
15 |
| Speaking test | A6 A9 A15 B4 B5 C2 | Students will take an oral exam at the end of the semester. In that test, they will have to prove their communicative competence in English. If a student obtains at least a 6 out of 10 in the continuous assessment in class, he/she will not have to take the final speaking test. |
10 |
| Mixed objective/subjective test | A1 A6 A9 A15 B1 B3 B6 C1 C2 | Students will have to take two Use of English tests during the semester. These tests will assess students' class work (10%). In January, on the official date, students will be expected to sit for the Use of English final part of the exam (20%). |
30 |
| Seminar | A6 A9 A15 B3 B4 B5 | A minimum of two listening comprehension tasks will assess the listening competences developed by students in the course seminars (15% of the final score). They will be done in the listening section of the official exam in the evaluation period. |
15 |
| Supervised projects | A6 B3 B5 B6 C2 C3 C5 | The assessment of the project (10% of the final grade) will be based on the oral presentation, the written part and the group work during the semester. |
10 |
| Student portfolio | A6 A9 A15 B3 B6 | Students will have to submit at least three writing tasks during the semester. Professors will pay particular attention not only to the linguistic quality of these compositions, but also to their originality, creativity, transversality, and personal involvement (15% of final mark). Students will also be expected to do some small activities throughout the course which will amount to 5% of the final mark. |
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| Assessment comments | |||
IMPORTANTIn order to pass this course a minimum of 5 out of 10 in the final mark is required. A score of 4 out of 10 is the minimum required in each of the following parts of the course (exam, writing task, oral test). The project (10%) and the small activities proposed by the teachers (5%) are not obligatory but highly recommended. Deadlines for assignments are strict. Late arrivals will be penalised (25% off final mark), unless they are duly justified. Pieces of work including plagiarized material will be marked with 0. Active participation in the different class activities, as well as all the extra-credit material carried out by the students during the course, could be awarded up to an extra 5% of the final mark. This can include voluntary work, alternative readings or any other activity proposed and accepted by students and teachers. The students who do not attend the official exam will be given a grade of NP (absent) if they have not handed in more than 50% of the continuous assessment activities. July opportunity: Those students who are absent from or fail the official examination session or those with less than a 4 in the writing assignments or in the speaking test (even if the average is superior to 5) will have to sit for the "second opportunity exam session" in July, where students can retake those parts they have failed, according to the following distribution of percentages: Exam (50%), writing tasks (15%), activities (15%) project (10%), oral interview (10%). Students who are officially registered as part time, 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. Students sitting the December exam (final exam brought forward) will be assessed according to the criteria specified for the July opportunity. ADI is a university office specialised in attending to members of the university with special needs due to discapacity or other differentiating situations with regard to the rest of the community. Students can talk to Dr. Ana Veleiro for more information, or contact ADI directly at http://www.udc.es/cufie/uadi/, or by phone ext. 5622, or via email: adi@udc.es. |
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