The course will focus especially on:

• Understanding of written texts and oral documents
• The practice of the oral and written expression techniques

A series of activities and tasks will be proposed to the student:

• Individual work (grammar exercises, written productions: stories, writing of argumentative type).
• Group work (simulations, activities of comprehension, writing, oral presentations, etc.).
• Readings / presentations (debates, presentation of texts, representation of dialogues, etc.).
• Autonomous readings.
• Audiovisual contents (movies in German).

The following aspects will be evaluated:

• Express yourself orally fluently about a given topic in the context of an oral presentation, a debate, or a dialogue where a point of view must be defended.
• Write a coherent text.
• Be able to reflect on one's own learning and to resort to learning strategies.
• Be able to put into practice the acquired knowledge in class: step from passive knowledge to the active use of this knowledge.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Continuous assessment

- Partial tests will be carried out that include different evaluation activities (reading comprehension, written and oral production, grammatical knowledge, and autonomous reading). Each partial test has a scale to assess the learning outcomes according to specific competences. These tests will last 1 hour or 2 hours.

- The partial tests are mandatory. If for any reason (teacher's illness, strike, festivity, official acts of the faculty, ...) tests cannot be performed on the scheduled date, they will be reprogrammed on another day. If a student, for health reasons, can not attend a partial test, he or she must bring a medical justification. Only in that case is there the possibility of performing the test on another date.

- Active participation in the course will be positively valued.

- Active participation in the group.

- During the semester, the progression of their learning will be discussed with the students.

- During the tutorials that will be carried out during the semester, their progression and their qualifications will be discussed with each student.

Annotation: The information on the evaluation, the type of assessment activity, and its weight on the subject are for informational purposes. The teacher responsible for the subject will specify it in the beginning of the semester.

Review

- When submitting the final grade before the minutes of the subject, the teacher will notify in writing a date and time of revision. (It will be reported directly at SIGMA).

- The review of the various assessment activities will be agreed upon between the teacher and the student.

Resit

- Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6% (two thirds) of the subject's final mark and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5.

- The following evaluation activities will be excluded from the recovery: Oral works and presentations in class (20%).

- When submitting the final grade prior to the minutes of the subject, the teacher will notify in writing the recovery procedure. The teacher will propose a recovery activity for each activity suspended or not presented.

- Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for.

Classification as "not assessable"

A “Not Assessable” will be recorded if the evidence submitted by the student accounts for no more than 25% of the total course grade.

Misconduct in assessment activities

Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, impersonation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for the activity in question. In the case of misconduct in more than one assessment activity, the students involved will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject.

Students may not retake assessment activities in which they are found to have engaged in misconduct. Plagiarism is considered to mean presenting all or part of an author's work, whether published in print or in digital format, as one's own, i.e., without citing it. Copying is considered to mean reproducing all or a substantial part of another student's work. In cases of copying in which it is impossible to determine which of two students has copied the work of the other, both will be penalized.

Use of artificial intelligence

In this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is not permitted at any stage of the assessment activities. Any work that includes AI-generated content will be considered a breach of academic integrity and will be graded a 0, regardless of any disciplinary proceedings that may be initiated.

Single assessment

- This subject may be assessed under the single assessment system in accordance with the terms established in the academic regulations of the UAB and the assessment criteria of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting.

- Students must make an online request within the period established by the faculty and send a copy to the lecturer responsible for the subject, for the record.

- Single assessment will be carried out in person on one day during week 16 or 17 of the semester. The Academic Management Office will publish the exact date and time on the faculty website.

- On the day of the single assessment, teaching staff will ask the student for identification, which should be presented as a valid identification document with a recent photograph (student card, DNI/NIE, or passport).

Single assessment activities

- Single assessment will include a minimum of three assessment activities of different types, as stated in the assessment guidelines.

- Grade revision and retake procedures for the subject are the same as those for continual assessment. See the section above in this Study Guide.