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Faculty of Philology
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Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
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  Lingua Inglesa 1
   Assessment
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 readings.
Also, in the last few weeks of the semester OR on the official date in the evaluation period, there will be a reading 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.




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Speaking test A6 A9 A15 B4 B5 C2
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 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 Englishs tests during the semester. These tests will assess students' class work. If students do not obtain a 5, they will have to retake the Use of English final test in January.


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Seminar A6 A9 A15 B3 B4 B5 A minimum of two 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 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 write at least two 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
 
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 sit for the official exam in
January.

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 assessement
activities.

July opportunity:
Those students who are absent from or fail the official examination
session or
those with less than a 4 in each of the parts (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: Listening comprehension
(15%), writing tasks (15%), project (10%), reading comprehension (15%),
oral interview (10%) and mixed test (35%).

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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