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:
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
Class goals and skills acquired:
With the academic work carried out in this course, students should reach level B1.2/B2.1 as established by the Common European Framework Reference (2001). More specifically, students who successfully complete the coursework should be able to carry out these tasks:
Listening Comprehension:
* Can understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure etc., including short narratives.
* Can understand main ideas presented in radio and television programs that deal with common everyday personal and/or job related topics, provided speech is clearly articulated in a generally familiar accent.
Reading Comprehension:
* Can read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension.
* Can understand description of facts, feelings and hopes in personal letters.
Oral exchanges:
* Can exploit a wide range of simple language to deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling.
* Can communicate with some confidence on familiar routine and non-routine matters related to his/her interests and professional field.
Oral Expression:
* Can connect phrases in a simple manner in order to describe experiences, facts, dreams, hopes and ambitions.
* Can explain and briefly justify opinions and projects.
* Can narrate a story, and the plot of a book or movie.
* Can describe personal reactions to situations.
Written expression:
* Can write straightforward connected texts on a range of familiar subjects within his/her field of interest, by linking a series of shorter discrete elements into a linear sequence.
* Can write personal letters and notes asking for or conveying experiences and impressions.
Throughout this course grammar and vocabulary aspects related to the use of the English language on a (high) intermediate level will be studied. The work done will enable students to reach the level and course goals mentioned above, and more particularly, will allow students to reach an acceptable level for the communicative activities in their everyday personal and professional life. More specifically, vocabulary and commonly used expressions in the areas of travel, academic life, leisure time and professional activities, technologies in everyday life, home and family, etc. will be studied.
The grammar to be covered includes aspects related to the appropriate use of verb tenses (paying special attention to the differences between English and the students' mother tongue), modal verbs, conditionals, negation, reported speech, articles and determiners, among others.
In addition, special emphasis will be placed on the study of the structures used in English to carry out basic communicative functions related to the use of language in the contexts of everyday life, such as: expressing opinions, (agreeing and disagreeing), worrying, how to ask for and give advice, expressing a need, giving and understanding a warning, explaining and asking for help to solve a personal problem, asking and giving permission, understanding the opinions and the ideas of others, narrating events in everyday life, etc.
Bibliography and learning materials
Course books and other materials used during the year:
A course book and corresponding grammar book (level B1.2/ B2.1. (CEFR) will be used. Within the first week of classes students will be provided with appropriate titles, as well as a reading list.
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
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://www.ldoceonline.com/ (inglés)
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/
http://dictionary.reference.com/
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/
English-Spanish
http://www.wordreference.com/
Synonyms, antonyms and related ideas
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
Grammar books:
http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/index.cfm
http://www.englishpage.com/grammar/
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/
BBC Learning English
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
British Council - Learning English
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/
University of Victoria - Language Center
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm
Apart from the specific objectives related to the level of language being sought, the practical activities done in this class will allow students to practice and develop a series of transversal skills:
---When using the materials and resources throughout the course, the students will consolidate their ability to manage certain self-teaching tools that a freely available on the Internet, and thus will demonstrate and better their capacity for autonomous learning.
---Students will also develop their ability to present their reasons and arguments in a clear manner, at the same time that they acquire flexibility to admit different perspectives; thus, they will be able to better their ability to participate in debates in a constructive manner.
---The day-to-day interaction in small groups will help students to better their interpersonal skills which are necessary for decision-taking and in order to organize their work as a team.
For students studying this subject as part of the Cultural Science and Cultural Communication Degree program, the skills that they will be developing in class 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:
CE1 –Students should have acquired the basic knowledge that allows them to understand the distinct components that form part of linguistic activity and the main methods and resources for the scientific study of this field.
CE2 – Students should have developed a reflexive and critical perspective about how science influences today’s world.
CE3 – Students should reasonably understand the interest of intercultural dialogue and the need to respect cultural differences.
For detailed information see:
http://www.usc.es/export/sites/default/gl/servizos/sxopra/memorias_grao…
Esta materia está afectada por el proceso de extinción de la oferta del título. Por este motivo sólo puede matricularse en esta materia el alumnado que ya lo hiciese en cursos anteriores, teniendo derecho a la tutorización y evaluación pero no a la docencia lectiva.
La metodología de la enseñanza será, pues, de carácter tutorial. A lo largo del curso el alumnado matriculado podrá y deberá concertar sesiones de tutoría con el docente para aclarar cualquier aspecto de la materia y de su evaluación.
1ª OPORTUNIDAD: En este proceso de extinción de la oferta del título, la evaluación se hará exclusivamente a través de la calificación obtenida en el examen final, en el que se valorará la adquisición de los contenidos y competencias de la materia y se realizará en la fecha establecida por la Secretaría de la Facultad.
2ª OPORTUNIDAD: En este proceso de extinción de la oferta del título, la evaluación se hará exclusivamente a través de la calificación obtenida en el examen final, en el que se valorará la adquisición de los contenidos y competencias de la materia y se realizará en la fecha establecida por la Secretaría de la Facultad.
Para los casos de realización fraudulenta de ejercicios o pruebas será de aplicación lo recogido en la "Normativa de evaluación del rendimiento académico de los estudiantes y de revisión de cualificaciones.