Teaching GuideTerm
Faculty of Philology
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Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
 Subjects
  Lingua Inglesa 3
   Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Online forum A6 A9 A10 A17 A18 A19 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B10 C2 C4 Students must participate in the virtual forum during the term, linking news and expressing their opinions about them, debating and replying to contributions by their peers, and trying to convince others. Apart from the general correction of the language used and their debating skills, the frequency of contributions THROUGHOUT the term will also be taken into account. 10
Objective test A6 A15 A18 B3 B6 C2 An objective test based on materials covered in class. Includes various sorts of exercises. Out of this 40% of the marks, 30% correspond to a written exam on grammar and vocabulary, 5% corresponds to a listening comprehension test and 5% to a reading comprehension test. 40
Student portfolio A1 A6 A9 A10 A15 A18 A20 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B10 C2 C4 Written compositions will be assessed. The characteristics of each will be explained by the teacher involved. 15
Seminar A1 A6 A10 A18 A20 B6 C2 In seminars, students will have their coursework on listening and reading assessed. 20
Speaking test A6 A9 B4 B7 B8 B10 C2 All students will perform a speaking test at the end of the four-month period, in which they must display communicative competence in the English language. Students will be assessed on their ability to make themselves understood, their coherence, fluency, pronunciation and also their lexical and grammatical complexity and correctness. 15
 
Assessment comments
To pass the subject, students must fulfil these two conditions:

A) Final average of the whole subject over 50%

B) Having more than 40% in each of the parts of these subject:"proba oral", "seminario", "proba obxectiva" and "portafolios do alumno".

If students do not fulfil any of these conditions, they will have to go to the second opportunity in July.

Submitting tasks:

Late submissions with no justification will be applied a 25% penalty. Plagiarised tasks will be given a 0 automatically. Plagiarism detection tools can be used.

NonPresentado (NP) Qualification:

To be able to obtain the Non Presentado (NP) qualification, students must not have sit the Objective test or the Speaking test, and they must also NOT have submitted more than 50% of the coursework.

JULY OPPORTUNITY:

Students not able to pass the subject in the first opportunity must sit the second opportunity in July. The proportion of each assessment item will be the same, although some of the tasks will be changed for new, specific ones. Those parts of the subject that students have already passed (more than 50% of the marks) in the first opportunity don't have to be repeated for July.

DISPENSA ACADÉMICA:

Students will an officially recognised "dispensa académica" will be assessed following the instructions for the July opportunity, maintaining the same proportion for the assessment items and adapting the tasks so that they can be completed asynchronously. Students in this situation must contact the teachers as soon as they become aware of it.

Diversity

: This module can be adapted to students who need support for their particular situation (physical,visual, auditory, cognitive, learning process, or related to mental health). Ifnecessary, students should contact the services available in UDC/in their school or faculty, or the Unidad de Atención ala Diversidad (ADI) at the beginning of each academic semester in the timeframe officially established (https://www.udc.es/cufie/adi/apoioalumnado/);alternatively, they can contact the ADI tutor in the Faculty of Philology at the following address: pat.filoloxia@udc.gal ).

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