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Faculty of Philology
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Grao en Galego e Portugués: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
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  Lingua Inglesa 2
   Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Seminar C3 Two in-class listening comprehension tests will assess the listening competences developed by students in the course seminars (15% of the final score). They will be done either throughout the course OR on the official date in the evaluation period.

Attendance and active participation in all sections could add up to a 5% to the final score. 		20
Supervised projects B1 The assessment of the project (10% of the final grade) will be based on the written part, the oral presentation and the group work during the semester. 10
Objective test A15 C2 Students will have to take two objective tests (Use of English) during the semester. These tests will assess students' class work. (30%). If students do not obtain a 5, they will have to retake the Use of English final test in June. 30
Speaking test A15 B4 All students will take an oral exam at the end of the semester or during the assessment period, In that test, he/she will have to prove his/her communicative competence in English.


If a student obtains at least a 6 out of 10 in the continual assessment in class, he/she will not have to take the final speaking test.
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Student portfolio B3 Students will have to write 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
Workbook A6 One or two short stories in English will be provided for students to read. Students will have to write short written answers about these readings (5%).

Also, in the last few weeks of the semester OR on the official date in the evaluation period there will be an in-class test. In this exam, students will be expected to write short answers about a text that will be provided by the professors during the exam (10%)
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Assessment comments
IMPORTANT

In 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 parts of the course (reading/listening/speaking/writing/Use of English).
Those students who get more than 5 in the two Use of English tests which will be
done throughout the course will not have to take the official exam in June. Deadlines for assignments are strict. Late submissions will be
penalized (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
assessement activities.

July opportunity: Those
students who do not take or fail the official exam or get less than a 4 in each of the parts (even if the average is over 5)
will have to take the "second opportunity exam session" in July,
where students can retake those parts they have failed according to the following distribution: listening comprehension (15%), writing tasks (15%), reading comprehension (15%), speaking/interview (10%), project (10%), and written text (35%). These requirements also apply to the December opportunity.

Academic Exemption: Students who have enrolled part-time and  been granted exemption, as specified in the university regulations, will be assessed in December or July, according to the criteria applied in 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 or visit http://www.udc.es/cufie/uadi/ for more information, or contact ADI directly by phone ext. 5622, or via email: adi@udc.es
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