Directed activities

• Lectures

General phonetics

Description of the articulation of English consonants and vowels and their classification

• Practical exercises

Classroom correction of homework. Pronunciation practice

Improvement of production and perception of English sounds

Supervised

Individual assignments, preparation of assignmetns and pronunciation practice

Dealing with theroetical contents

Identification of difficult aspects of English pronunciation

Phonetic transcription

Autonomous

• Personal study

Mastering the main notions of phonetics and phonology and apply them to the English language.

Describing the consonantal and vocalic phonemes of English and their realisations

• Practical exercises and pronunciation practice

Autonomous practice (including self-correction)

Identifying and working the difficult aspects of English pronunciation.

Assessment

• Exercises and assignments

Classroom correction of exercises

• Exams

Understanding and explaining the basic theoretical notions of phonetics and phonology and their application to English phonetics and phonology, as well as a contrastive analysis between English and Spanish and Catalan.

Practice of phonological and phonetic transcription.

Acurate production of English sounds

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

This subject does not incorporate the single-assessment option.

• 80% of the final mark will correspond to two written exams in the middle and the end of the term (25% and 30%, respectively) and an oral exam at the end (25%). The pass mark for all exams is 5 out of 10.
• 10% of the final mark corresponds to one or two assignments, which may include a mock oral exam and another assignment to be determined.
• The remaining 10% will correspond to homework exercises, practical exercises done in class, class participation, and homework-based quizzes.

Exact dates for all evaluation activities will be confirmed at the start of the course through a course calendar published on the class Moodle.

Note:

• All the assignments and tests are COMPULSORY.
• To pass the course, the following conditions need to be fulfilled:
• The final written exam and the oral exam need to be passed.
• The combination of the marks of the two written exams needs to average out to a 5 out of 10, or higher, with the condition that the midterm written exam has a mark of at least 4 out of 10.
• The course average, taking all assessment items into account, should be at least a 5 out of 10.
• Students will obtain a not assessed/not submitted course grade (“No avaluable”) unless they have submitted more than 30% of the assessment items.
• The students’ command of English will be taken into account when marking all exercises and for the final mark.
• This subject entirely prohibits the use of Artificial Intelligence (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.
• IMPORTANT: Partial or total plagiarizing will immediately result in a FAIL (0) for the plagiarized exercise. Repeated instances of plagiarism will result in a FAIL (0) of the whole subject. PLAGIARISING consists of copying text from unacknowledged sources –whether this is part of a sentence or a whole text– with the intention of passing it off as the student’s own production. It includes cutting and pasting from internet sources, presented unmodified in the student’s own text. Plagiarizing is a SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors’ intellectual property, always identifying the sources they may use; they must also be responsible for the originality and authenticity of their own texts.
• 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. These evaluation activities will not be re-assessed.
• If a student misses a test or an assignment for a justified reason (e.g., an illness), the student will need to provide evidence of that justification in order to opt for a make-up test or assignment.
• If an Erasmus exchange student cannot be present on the date of a final exam due to a scheduling conflict related to their home university and wants to request an earlier examination date, they will need to submit a written document or letter from their home university in order to justify their request.

Reassessment conditions

• Reassessment of the course material will be possible when the following conditions are met:
• The student has a minimum course mark of 3.5/10.
• The student must have been assessed in activities worth at least 2/3 of the total continuous assessment weight.
• The only evaluation items that can be reassessed are the two written exams and the oral exam. In the event that a student has to reassess both written exams, there will be a single exam involving then content included in both failed exams.
• The reassessment dates are assigned by the university and will not be changed to suit individual students' needs.
• Lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the date and place of the reassessment exams.

Evaluation activities excluded from reassessment

The following activities are not eligible for reassessment: assignments, quizzes, and assigned exercises.

Procedure for Reviewing Grades Awarded

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.