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
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Education Sciences
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- To train students in the skills of listening and speaking in English.
- To practise pronunciation of individual sounds, connected speech and intonation patterns.
- To consolidate a high-intermediate level in speaking and understanding oral English, which allows the student to understand and produce spoken texts, both general and specific to their area of expertise (acquisition and teaching of English as a Foreign Language) .
- To consolidate the grammatical , lexical and discourse structures necessary to communicate without difficulty in the reference level (upper- intermediate )
- To introduce students into the world of EFL language teaching and acquisition.
- To reflect upon the factors influencing EFL learning and teaching.
- To familiarise students with the main literature in the field.
- To acquaint students with basic terminology on the subject.
- To make a critical revision of approaches and methods connected with the teaching of EFL oral/aural skills.
- To present and carefully examine a series of techniques for the teaching of listening and speaking.
- To acquaint students with the typical EFL "classroom language".
- To acquaint students with the language of academic presentations in English.
PART 1: Practice of English Listening and Speaking skills
1.1. Listening
1.2. Speaking
1.2.1. Pronunciation, oral production and oral interaction
1.2.2. Classroom language
1.2.3. The language of academic presentations
PART 2: Teaching EFL listening and speaking skills: approaches, methods, techniques and activities
2.1. Teaching listening
2.2. Teaching speaking
2.3. Teaching pronunciation
2.4. Correction and evaluation
1) BASIC:
Murphy, R. (2004). English grammar in use. Upper-intermediate. Cambridge University Press
Pinter, A. (2017). Teaching young language learners. Oxford University Press.
Slattery, M. J. W. (2001). English for primary teachers: a handbook of activities and classroom language. Oxford University Press.
2) COMPLEMENTARY
- USE OF ENGLISH:
Eastwood, J. (2006). Oxford practice Grammar (Intermediate) (with key and CD Rom). Oxford University Press.
Redman, S. (2003). English vocabulary in use. Pre-intermediate and intermediate. Cambridge University Press
- LANGUAGE TEACHING:
Anderson, A. & Lynch, T. (1988). Listening. Oxford University Press.
Cameron, L. (2001). Teaching languages to young learners. Cambridge University Press
Harmer, J. (2007). How to teach Listening: An introduction to the practice of English language teaching. Pearson Education.
Harmer, J. (2007). The practice of English language teaching. Pearson Education.
Hearn, I. & Garcés, A. (2003). Didáctica do Inglés para Primaria. Pearson Education.
Hedge, T. (2000). Teaching and learning in the language classroom. Oxford University Press
Krashen, S. D. (1987). Principles and practice in second language acquisition. Prentice-Hall International.
Krashen, S. D. (1988). Second language acquisition and second language learning. Prentice-Hall International.
Lindsay, C. & P. Knight. (2006). Learning and teaching English. A course for teachers . Oxford University Press
Scott, W. A. & L. H. Ytreberg. (1990). Teaching English to children. Longman.
Thornbury, S. 2005. How to teach speaking. Pearson Education.
Vale, D. & A. Feunteun. (2011). Teaching children English. Cambridge University Press
G.1. Ability to display knowledge of the curriculum areas of primary education, their relationships, evaluation criteria, and teaching of their teaching and learning.
G.3. Ability to address situations of language learning in multicultural and multilingual contexts
G.11. Ability to recognize, select and implement technologies in the information and communication classroom Specific:
E.52. Linguistic competence: the ability to express themselves, orally and in writing in a foreign language.
E.53. Competition Teaching: ability to develop and evaluate curriculum contents with appropriate didactic resources and promote relevant competences in students
Basic:
B.1. Ability to show acquisition of knowledge and understanding, especially regarding the study area.
B.2. Ability to apply knowledge acquired to the professional field in order to develop arguments and solve problems.
B.4. Ability to transmit information in specialized fields and not specialized.
Transversal:
T.1. Instrumental knowledge of foreign languages.
Teaching sessions will be held in English.
Activities will be done in big, medium-sized or small groups, and also individually.
The lectures will be devoted, on the one hand, to the study of the main trends and methods in the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language in Primary Education, paying special attention to receptive and productive oral skills. On the other hand, students will improve their communicative competence by dealing with lexical, morphological and syntactic aspects of the foreign language.
Interactive sessions (for medium-sized groups) will also be focused on the development of the students’ communicative competence, particularly as regards listening and speaking skills, by means of activities devised to check students’ comprehension and production of oral texts.
Individual and group assessment will be focused on verifying the acquisition of both linguistic competence and methodological knowledge.
The teaching platform will be used both to complement the face-to-face sessions by including additional materials, as a tool for continous assessment and to promote autonomous learning (class forum, quizzes, short essays).
Tutorials (for small groups or single students) will be monitoring sessions devoted to the students’ supervision and the encouragement of autonomous learning.
A) STUDENTS REGULARLY ATTENDING LESSONS:
1) FIRST OPPORTUNITY
1.1. CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT: 50%
- Class participation and teaching platform participation (written and oral tasks carried out individually or in groups): 15%
- Individual oral presentation: 35%
1.2. FINAL EXAM 50%
2) SECOND OPPORTUNITY:The same system applies as for the first opportunity.
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT: 50% (the same grade as in the first opportunity is maintained, that is, these assignments cannot be retaken)
FINAL EXAM 50%
B) STUDENTS WITH OFFICIAL TEACHING EXEMPTION AND ATTENDANCE WAIVER:
- Final exam (100%) consisting of two an oral exam (40%) and a written test (60%)
- Students with official teaching exemption and attendance waiver will have to contact the course coordinator in the first two weeks of the semester to agree on a study and tutoring plan through which they can follow the subject and take the final exam.
C) RETAKES: Students repeating the subject will be allowed to choose between the system described in section A or the system des cribed in section B, but they will have to inform the teacher about their decision in the first two weeks of the semester.
IMPORTANT:
If fraudulent practices are detected in assignments or exams of any kind, this will bring about a direct fail in the subject, in application of article 16 of “Regulations for evaluating the academic performance of students and reviewing qualifications” :
“The fraudulent performance of an exercise or test required in the evaluation of a subject will result in a grade of suspension or in the corresponding call, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be followed against the offending student. The creation of plagiarized works or works obtained from sources accessible to the public without reworking or reinterpretation and without citations to the authors and sources is considered fraudulent, among others”.
Approximately 74 hours of personal work.
Attendance and participation is recommended.
It is recommended that students have a near to intermediate - high level at the beginning of this course .
It is also recommended to have passed the compulsory subject of ' ENSINO E APRENDIZAXE DE COMPETENCIAS COMUNICATIVAS: INGLES'
1) Students must prepare in advance the exercises and the recommended readings for the subsequent discussion in the classroom.
2) Likewise, they must regularly check the virtual classroom of the subject and their email, means that will be used to send information and to communicate last-minute changes.
3) The work done by the students will be delivered only through the virtual classroom. Paperwork or submissions sent by other means such as email will NOT be accepted.
4) Students must use their USC email account (rai.usc.es) when communicating with professors. Any email using a non-institutional account will not be answered by teachers.
5) Students must use university tools to present the activities required by their teacher (Virtual Campus; Microsoft Office 365; MS Teams; MS Onedrive depending on the instructions given for each activity).
6) The mobile phone may not be used, except when it is used as a work tool following the instructions given by the teacher, the students being responsible for the legal and academic consequences that may arise from inappropriate use of it.
7) Take into account that teaching-learning (classes / tutorials) is a private process, private is understood as a process of communication and exchange between the teacher and the student enrolled in the subject.
8) Mandatory compliance with data protection regulations: https://www.usc.gal/es/politica-privacidad-proteccion-datos
9) Non-sexist language will be used, both in daily classroom work and in assigned academic work. Information about this can be obtained at the link: https://www.usc.gal/gl/servizos/area/igualdade/cultura-institucional.
Raquel Pereira Romasanta
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- raquel.romasanta [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Intern Assistant LOSU
| Friday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | (NORTH CAMPUS) - CLASSROOM 52 |
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | (NORTH CAMPUS) - CLASSROOM 52 |
| 06.06.2025 09:30-11:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | (NORTH CAMPUS) - CLASSROOM 32 |
| 07.09.2025 09:30-11:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | (NORTH CAMPUS) - CLASSROOM 32 |