| Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
| Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign/Second Language (2015) |
 Subjects |
| ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES |
| Assessment |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2023_24 |
| Subject | ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES | Code | 12865202 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 3 | Optional | First | 1Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Methodologies | Competences | Description | Weight | ||||
| Presentations / oral communications |
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As part of their collaborative work on the design of an ESP course, students will have to deliver an oral presentation that should be video-recorded. Then, in a synchronous session they will have to answer questions on their presentation. | 20% | ||||
| Collaborative work |
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In groups of 4-5 members, students will have to design an ESP course of their choice, in which they will have to reflect all the course decisions made regarding course design. They will have to submit a complete a Needs Analysis and a Genre Analysis, a syllabus, a complete teaching unit, and the assessment method appropriate for the ESP course designed. They will also have to submit a powerpoint explaining the whole process of course design. | 20% | ||||
| Self-monitoring activities |
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In order to help students check their progress and understanding of concepts related to ESP courses, they will have to complete 4 online tests. | 35% | ||||
| Problem solving, exercises in the classroom |
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Submission of weekly assignments related to course contents. | 15% | ||||
| Debates |
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Active participation in debates and in the Question and Answer period in one of the synchronous sessions. | 10% | ||||
| Others |
| Other comments and second exam session | |||
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ONLINE TEACHING: 1st CALL (Continuous Assessment): The calculated final grade will result from the following assessment items: -Oral Presentacions (20 %) + Collaborative Work (20 %) + Self-monitoring activities (35 %) + Problem solving, Exercises in the classroom (15 %) + Debates (10 %) + = 100% 2nd CALL: Students who may not be able to complete all the assessment activities of continuous assessment (except for weekly Assignments and self-monitoring activities or Online tests) should be able to complete them for the 2nd Call. The activities students can submit again include only Oral Presentations, Collaborative work and Debates (50 % of the final grade). Academic integrity and PLAGIARISM: If the instructor considers that any work submitted (an activity or part of it, e.g. an assignment, an online test, or an ESP course) is not original, the student will be disqualified from the activity, will receive 0 and will NOT be able to take the 2nd Call Examination. See URV's regulation on Academic Plagiarism: https://www.crai.urv.cat/media/upload/domain_2232/arxius/crai/plagi/060418_es_guiaprofessors_web.pdf Examples of plagiarism include copying, self-plagiarism, collusion, submitting other people's work as your own, mosaic plagiarism, summarizing and paraphrasing without acknowledging the original source. |
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