ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
The chief aim of this subject is to help students to develop the oral and written production and comprehension skills. At the end of the semester students are expected to achieve a B1+ level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
In addition, the subject sets out to:
-Encourage linguistic correction at the levels of grammar, technical vocabulary, orthography and pronunciation.
-Reinforce the knowledge of basic structures and functions of technical English.
-Strengthen the vocabulary which allows students to cover a variety of topics related to the scientific field.
-Promote critical thinking about the use of language in scientific fields.
The contents of this subject cover a variety of grammatical, lexical and phonological aspects selected on the basis of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) for the B1 level. Likewise, the course will put into practice the oral and written production and comprehension skills, focusing always on the field of Chemical Engineering.
Armer, Tamzen, and Jeremy Day. 2011. Cambridge English for Scientists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ibbotson, Mark. 2008. Cambridge English for Engineering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Murphy, Raymond. 2019. English Grammar in Use. Fifth edition. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.
General competences:
CG.10.- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary and multilingual environment.
Cross-curricular competences:
CT.3 Oral and written communication in native and foreign languages.
CT.10 Interpersonal relationship skills.
CT.17 Creativity.
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Both in the ordinary (December/January) and in the extraordinary (June/July) exam period, the degree of achievement of the course objectives by the students will be assessed as indicated below:
FINAL EXAM (100%). This will comprise the following parts:
- Listening comprehension (20%)
- Reading comprehension (20%)
- Grammar and vocabulary (20%)
- Written expression (20%)
- Oral expression (20%)
In order to pass this subject, the sum of the different gradable components must be of 5 out of 10. In addition, students must obtain a minimum mark of 4 out of 10 in the following parts: 1) written expression; 2) oral expression. Students who do not obtain a minimum mark of 4 out of 10 in the two aforementioned components will fail the subject, even if the overall mark is 5 or over. In this case the mark registered in the Official Record will be 4.5.
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If fraudulent practices are detected in assignments or exams of any kind, art. 16 of “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will apply, which will bring about a direct fail in the subject: “A realización fraudulenta dalgún exercicio ou proba esixida na avaliación dunha materia implicará a cualificación de suspenso na convocatoria correspondente, con independencia do proceso disciplinario que se poida seguir contra o alumno infractor. Considerarase fraudulenta, entre outras, a realización de traballos plaxiados ou obtidos de fontes accesibles ao público sen reelaboración ou reinterpretación e sen citas aos autores e das fontes”.
Tamara Bouso Rivas
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- tamara.bouso.rivas [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
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