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
Objective test A6 A15 A18 B6 B3 C2 An objective test based on materials covered in class. Includes various sorts of exercises. Out of this 60% of the marks, 40% corresponds to a written exam on grammar and vocabulary, 10% corresponds to a listening comprehension test and 10% to a reading comprehension test. 60
Seminar A1 A6 A10 A17 A18 A20 B6 C2 In seminars, students will have their coursework on listening and reading assessed. 10
Student portfolio A1 A6 A9 A10 A15 A17 A18 A19 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
Speaking test A9 A6 B4 B7 B8 B10 C2 All students will perform an oral task 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. Students will choose to do their presentations either in-class or as a vlog. 15
 
Assessment comments
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  • <b>Passing the subject:</b>
  • </ul><p>To pass the subject, students must fulfil these two conditions:&nbsp;</p><p>A) Final average of the whole subject over 50%</p><p>B) Having more than 40% in each of the parts of these subject: "proba oral", "proba obxectiva" and "portafolios do alumno".</p><p>If students do not fulfil any of these conditions, they will have to go to the second opportunity in July.&nbsp;

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  • <b>Submitting tasks:</b>
  • </ul><p>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. Any fault against academic integrity (plagiarism, copying a task or an exam...) will be penalised, according to the Regulamento Disciplinar do Estudantado da UdC, articles 10.3.f and 11.4.b, with a Qualification of Fail (Suspenso) for both opportunities in the Course.</p><ul>
  • <b>Non
    Presentado (NP) Qualification:</b>
  • </ul><p>To be able to obtain the Non Presentado (NP) qualification, students must not have sit the Objective test or the Speaking test.&nbsp;</p><div><br /><div><ul>
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    JULY OPPORTUNITY:</b>
  • </ul></div><div>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 tasks for the Portfolio and Seminars 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 cannot be repeated for July.</div><div><br /></div><div><ul>
  • <b>DISPENSA ACADÉMICA:</b>
  • </ul></div><div>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.</div> </div>
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