ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Humanities
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
There are three types of objectives for this subject: theoretical, practical and methodological:
Among theoretical objectives we can mention the consolidation of the main structures and functions of the English language, the study of English grammar and the development of certain basic linguistic competences (writing, speaking, reading and comprehension).
The practical objectives concern (i) linguistic comprehension, like being able to hold a general conversation, understand the description of wishes, feelings, events or activities related to work, and identify and understand technical information; these objectives also concern (ii) linguistic production, like being able to explain everyday situations, communicate fluently everyday topics, describe wishes, experiences, feelings, opinions or reactions, discuss abstract and cultural topics, write personal letters which describe in detail events and experiences.
Finally, methodological objectives involve the active participation of students in the classroom, whether they be present, or in the virtual classroom by way of the activities assigned and the development of each student’s so-called autonomy in their learning process.
For a more detailed description of the CEFR, please consult:
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/Source/Framework_EN.pdf
It is strongly recommended that students have a B1.2 level at the beginning of the Spring semester.
The actual contents (grammar, vocabulary & skills) will be selected from the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, and implemented by means of the textbook to be announced the first week of class and in the Aula Virtual.
Course books and other materials used during the year:
A course book corresponding to level B1.2 /B2.2 of the MCER will be used. and will be announced the first week of class and in the Aula Virtual.
There will also be a reader which will be used to practice and also as a base for the composition part of the Final Exam.
Recommended dictionaries:
Gran diccionario Oxford Español-Inglés/Inglés-Español. Oxford University Press.
Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (Paperback). Harper Collins Publishers.
Online resources for consultation, practice and self-learning.
Dictionaries
(English-Galician)
---- http://sli.uvigo.es/CLIG/index.html
(English-Spanish-English)
---- http://www.wordreference.com/
(English)
---- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
---- http://www.ldoceonline.com/
---- http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
---- http://www.learnersdictionary.com/
---- http://dictionary.reference.com/
---- http://visual.merriam-webster.com/
Synonyms, antonyms and related ideas
---- http://thesaurus.reference.com/
Grammar books:
---- http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/index.cfm
---- (with exercises)
---- http://www.englishpage.com/grammar/
---- (with exercises)
Miscellanea (activities, tests, reading, podcasts...)
English Test Net
---- http://www.english-test.net/
About.com:
---- http://esl.about.com/
Easy English:
---- http://www.easyenglish.com/
A4esl.org:
---- http://a4esl.org/
UsingEnglish.com:
---- http://www.usingenglish.com/
English Page
---- http://www.englishpage.com/
---- (grammar, exercises, vocabulary, writing...)
BBC Learning English
---- http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
---- (grammar, tests, reading activities, listening comprehension, podcasts...)
British Council - Learning English
---- http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/
---- (grammar, tests, reading activities, listening comprehension, podcasts...)
University of Victoria - Language Center
---- http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm
For students studying this subject as part of the Cultural Science and Cultural Communication Degree program, the skills that they will be developing during this semester are:
BASIC & GENERAL SKILLS:
CG1 - Students should prove that they possess, in the area of the Humanities and Culture, the relative basic knowledge as acquired during their secondary education and that they are able to expand upon this base and develop it by means of contact with skilled texts and recent findings.
CG2 – Students should know how to apply their knowledge to their profession or vocation of a professional form, as well as possess the skills that are commonly shown in the preparation and defense of arguments and in their problem-solving capacity for the areas of Humanities and of Culture.
CG3 – Students should have the capacity to gather and interpret significant data (relative to the contents of the Degree in Cultural Science and Cultural Communication) so as to make judgments which involve reflection on important topics of social, scientific or ethical character.
CG4 – Students should be able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized as well as non-specialized audience.
CG5 - Students should have developed the learning skills necessary so as to undertake future studies with a high degree of autonomy.
TRANSVERSAL SKILLS:
CT1 – Students should have developed their capacity to correct and coherently use a foreign language in diverse communicative situations.
CT2 - Students should have knowledge to conduct suitable edition of texts, with the corresponding formal presentation as per the required parameters for computer processing in today’s world.
CT3 – Students should possess skill in the use of the new technologies.
SPECIFIC SKILLS:
CE4 –Students should have acquired a more profound knowledge about matters of interest in the field of Humanities.
CE5 - Students should have developed their capacity to prepare well thought out and critical commentaries for works and texts related to all areas of the field of Humanities.
CE6 - Students should have developed their skills in the preparation, edition and presentation of papers written as part of their elementary initiation to the field of research.
For more detailed information see:
http://www.usc.es/export/sites/default/gl/servizos/sxopra/memorias_grao…
The teaching methodology for this course is primarily a communicative approach that probes the nature of social, cultural, and pragmatic features oflanguage.
We are trying to get our learners to develop not only linguistic accuracy but also fluency.
Our students are equipped with tools for generating unrehearsed language performance 'out there' when they leave the classrooms.
Learners are considered as partners in cooperative learning.
For students the final exam grade will be 100% of the final course mark for this subject.
presenting fraudulent academic work for any type of final evaluation is penalized.
This subject consists of 15 weeks of class in which there will be 45 hours of class; students will also be responsible for 105 hours of personal study andwork outside the classroom for a total of 150 hours.
In general, we recommend that students increase their exposure to the English language, and not restrict themselves to the exposure provided by all theacademic courses; but that they also watch movies, listen to songs, read journals and magazines, and establish contact with native speakers during theirfree time outside the classroom.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: In the USC Rules for Academic Performance (DOG 21 from 21 July, 2011, Art. 16) presenting fraudulent academic work for any type of final evaluation is penalized with a “Fail” in the corresponding exam period. Turning in this type of work may also result in a disciplinary process for the offender (1). Hence, any detection of plagiarism in any of the academic work turned in for grading in this subject will be penalized with a “Fail” in this subject, even when the student has passing marks in other areas of evaluation. As “plagiarism” we understand when an academic paper includes any partial or complete copy, in literal form or not, of content, or ideas published in other academic papers or in any other type of published format (paper or Internet), and where the student does not cite the source from which the said content or idea was taken. Students who fail because of plagiarism will not be allowed to take part in the second chance exam period.
All of the activities which are turned in should include the bibliographical sources that were consulted, as per an established academic method of bibliographical (and digital) quotation.
Maria Del Mar Viña Rouco
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- mariadelmar.vina [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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