The methodology of this course combines practical activities in oral and written production with an active, participatory approach aimed at the progressive development of advanced academic English competences. It promotes both autonomous and collaborative learning, as well as the application of knowledge to tasks closely aligned with those required for the Final Degree Project (TFG).

The activities include:

• Practical written and oral production tasks in the classroom, aimed at the progressive development of academic competences.
• Individual and group activities for written and oral production, including projects and simulations of real academic situations.
• Individual and/or group tutorials to monitor student progress and address specific doubts.
• Specialized academic readings as a basis for analysis, discussion, and written and oral production.
• Debates and academic interaction activities to foster critical thinking and formal oral communication skills.
• Guided practice in the search, selection, and synthesis of academic information.

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.

Assessment for this course includes:

• Written in-class tasks 10%
• Literature review 25%
• Academic oral presentation 25%
• Final Oral Exam 20%
• Final Written Exam 20%

On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.

This subject/module does not incorporate single assessment.

Students will obtain a Not Assessed/ Not Sumbitted course grade unless they have submitted more than 30% of the assessment items.

In order to pass the course it is mandatory to attend 80% of the classes and hand in all the continuous assessment assignments.

The students' level of English (C2) will be taken into account in the marking of all assessment items.

REASSESSMENT

• Only the literature review and/or the oral presentation may be reassessed.
• To be eligible for reassessment, students must have previously been assessed in a set of activities whose combined weighting is at least two thirds of the total continuous assessment grade.
• To be eligible for reassessment, students must have a minimum course average of 3.5/10.
• In-class written assignments and final exams cannot be reassessed.
• The grade obtained in the reassessment will replace the previous grade.
• The literature review/theoretical framework and the oral presentation should only be reassessed if the final weighted course average is below 5.

Important note for exchange students:

An Erasmus or other exchange student who asks to change the date of an exam or any other assessment activity must present an official document from their home university justifying the request.

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 indiacting authorship (plagiarism), 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 activites. Any submitted work that contains content generated or modified using AI will be considered academic dishonesty; the corresponding grade will be awarded a zero, without the possibility to reassess. In cases of greater infringement, more serious action may be taken.