The methodology will be based on the following activities:

• Directed activities (33%)
• Supervised activities (10%)
• Autonomous activities (40%)
• Assessment activities (17%)

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

This subject does not incorporate the single-assessment option.

Due to the practical nature of this subject, students are required to attend and actively participate in at least 80% of classes and in-class assessment activities (e.g. quizzes, tests, oral presentations and other classroom activities) in order to be eligible for the 30% of the final grade corresponding to continuous assessment.

The exact dates of all assessment activities will be announced at the beginning of the course on Moodle. The schedule of evaluation activities cannot be modified, except in duly justified exceptional cases. Exchange students who request to take an examination earlier must provide the lecturer with a written document from their home university justifying their request.

At the time of each assessment activity, the lecturer will inform students through Moodle of the procedure and date for reviewing grades.

Any assigned work that is not submitted will receive a mark of 0.

Students may receive a final grade of “No Avaluable” provided that they have not submitted more than 30% of the assessment activities.

Information about final (written/oral) exams:

To pass the course, students must pass both the oral and written final exams.

The written exam can only be taken if students pass the oral exam.

Students must obtain a minimum mark of 4.5 in each part of the final exams (oral and written). For example, if the written exam consists of three parts (Listening + Use of English + Pronunciation), students must obtain at least 4.5 in the three parts. If the oral exam consists of two parts (Reading + Oral presentation), students must obtain at least 4.5 in the two parts.

Only if all parts receive a mark of 4.5 or higher will the average mark for the exam be calculated.

Students will pass the exam (oral/written) if this average is 5.0 or higher.

Continuous assessment marks will only be taken into account once both the oral and written final exams have been passed.

Reassessment:

It is not possible to reassess an exam which has been passed. Continuous assessment activities cannot be reassessed.

To be eligible for reassessment, students must have previously been assessed in a set of activities whose combined weighting is equivalent to at least two-thirds of the total continuous assessment grade, provided that they have not failed to submit more than 30% of the assessment activities.

Students may reassess:

• one part only of the oral final exam, provided that the average mark for the oral exam is 3.5 or higher; and/or
• one part only of the written final exam, provided that the average mark for the written exam is 3.5 or higher.

After reassessment, the new mark obtained in the reassessed part will replace the previous mark. The final exam average will then be recalculated using all components of the exam.

To pass the exam after reassessment, students must:

• obtain a minimum mark of 4.5 in each component of the exam; and
• obtain an overall average mark of 5.0 or higher.

Students who pass through reassessment will receive the final course grade based on the average of the final written and oral exams, excluding continuous assessment activities.

IMPORTANT:

• In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject. Irregularities refer, for instance, to copying in an exam, copying from sources without indicating authorship, or a misuse of AI such as presenting work as original that has been generated by an AI tool or programme. These evaluation activities will not be re-assessed.
• This subject entirely prohibits the use of AI technologies in all of its activities. Any submitted work that contains content generated using AI will be considered academic dishonesty; the corresponding grade will be awarded a zero, without the possibility of reassessment. In cases of greater infringement, more serious action may be taken.