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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Lingua Inglesa 2 |
| Methodologies |
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| Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Lingua Inglesa 2 | Code | 613G03008 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
First | Basic training | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Methodologies | Description |
| Introductory activities | Initial contact with the course contents. Different activities will be conducted to obtain relevant information from/about the students' level of competence in English. This information will be used to articulate the different teaching strategies to favour comprehensive and effective learning. |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | Lecture classes, supported by A/V technologies, including questions and discussions that help students to acquire general knowledge and specific contents. |
| Seminar | Practical classes aimed at developing speaking, writing, reading and listening skills using a topic from the course contents or others that may be of general interest. Students will participate in these seminars every week, so that they are able to practise all skills uninterruptedly. |
| Directed discussion | Oral activities in groups, monitored by Teaching Assistants, in which students' speaking skills are put into practice. Informal, spontaneous, and natural conversations and debates are to be expected in these sessions. |
| Speaking test | Brief conversation or interview with lecturer (individually or in pairs). Students will also be required to read a text aloud and improvise situations suggested by the examiners. Examiners may use use additional printed or audiovisual material as a prompt to conversation. |
| Mixed objective/subjective test | It consists of different types of questions: multiple choice, short answer, association, gap-fill and other activities. |
| Workbook | This includes all the reading material students required for out of class preparation for reading comprehension activities, as well as other readings in English students use in other subjects or in other situations. Students are strongly encouraged to read as much and as often as possible. |
| Practical test: | Practical tasks set by the lecturer during the semester. |
| Collaborative learning | Working in small groups in class and using ICT to pool abilities and information, promote peer learning, and optimise learning outcomes for all group members. |
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