Foreign Language Il - Spanish

Subject: 2019/2020 - 2S

Programmes

Hours Effectively Taught

LTU1

Teaching Language

Aims, Skills and Learning Outcomes

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY OF CURRICULAR UNIT
Initial level of Spanish for professional purposes. (A2).
This Curricular Unit follows the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

OBJECTIVES AND EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
The main objective of this Curricular Unit is to teach students the tools and concepts needed to express themselves with a clear and precise language in a work situation.

SKILLS TO BE DEVELOPED
In the contact sessions the teacher will focus the following skills: listening comprehension, oral interaction, written expression, grammatical and lexical acquisition.
At the end of this curricular unit, the student should be able to:
Follow a conversation and understand the speech addressed to him.
Write notes and / personal and simple business letters.
Describe and easily compare living conditions, professional and socio-cultural aspects.

Programme

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit's learning objectives

The programmatic content combines active pedagogical practices of communication with systematic exercises to learn enough vocabulary and grammar to reach the level A2 of the CEFR.

Main literature

Supplementary Bibliography

Learning Methods

We use the Entorno Laboral, Edelsa, reference manual as a method of learning Spanish for professional purposes, because it has a communicative approach that favors teamwork, the use of multimedia tools and compliance with CEFR directives.

Assessment Components

Avaliação distribuída com exame final

Assessment Components

Continuous Assessment

Oral group work (2 e-learning activities: work and forum): 30 %
Individual written tests (2): 70% (35%+35%)

Under the terms of the Degree Regulation:

a) The actual presence of the students in the classes will be registered and, if the number of absences per student exceeds 30% of the total number of contact sessions provided for each course unit, it will automatically be transferred to the final evaluation of the normal period.

b) In the written tests referred to in paragraph 5 a) of Article 38 and in the evaluation elements referred to in paragraphs b) to e) of paragraph 2 of Article 39 it is necessary to obtain a minimum grade of 7.5 (seven comma five) values.

c) If the student fails or obtains a grade lower than 7.5 points in the written tests or assignments, he will be automatically transferred to the final evaluation of the normal season.

d) If the student is absent or gets a grade lower than 7.5 points in the second written test (held on the same date as the final written test of the normal time), he / she may apply for evaluation at the time of appeal.

e) All written academic work handled for assessment (reports, case studies, etc.) must be submitted to the Turnitin database, available on the ISAG E-Learning platform, with an acceptable similarity rate up to 30%.

Final Exam

Written exam: 100%

The student classified with 8 (eight) or 9 (nine) values in the written exam will have access to an oral test.

Proofs and special works

Demonstration of the coherence between the teaching methodologies and the learning outcomes

The communicative approach and use of multimedia tools enhances and favors the acquisition of the required competences in the level to be achieved in this curricular unit by simulating and reproducing the situations in which the new user of the language will be in his professional and personal life.