The skills in English as a First Foreign Language will be broadened and deepened and the necessary specific ones will be developed with regard to translation:

• Global abilities and communication skills of the foreign language;
• Special language skills in English as a Working Language for Translation, by providing special emphasis on those that are of a pragmatic, intercultural and contrastive relevance for translation, heuristics or instruments for language learning.

The nature of the subject is theoretical-practical. The basis of textual analysis (language and translation) will be addressed, along with the reception and textual production of texts in English. All knowledge, skills, strategies and activities of the subject will be carried out through work with and on texts (standard models and current examples).

Training activities

• Accomplishment of tasks to develop strategies and methods of reading and text comprehension.
• Performance of tasks to develop strategies and methods of discourse analysis for translation.
• Dealing with typical linguistic and intercultural problems manifested in current texts, followed by grammar tasks, exercises or corresponding detection tasks.
• Systematisation of textual synthesis and bases of linguistic mediation by means of periphrasis, reformulation or explanation of textual content.
• Performance of oral and written communicative tasks based on the creation of specific genres (e.g. abstract, summary, working script, oral presentation, text analysis, review, linguistic autobiography) on topics of an (inter-) cultural, linguistic or translation-focused nature in the first foreign language.

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

Assessment is continuous throughout the subject. Students must provide evidence of their progress by completing various tasks and tests. Task and test deadlines will be indicated in the course schedule on the first day of class. The information on assessment activities and their weighting is a guide. The subject lecturer will provide full information when teaching begins.

Review

When publishing final grades prior to recording them on students' transcripts, the lecturer will provide written notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrange reviews in agreement with the lecturer.

Missed/failed assessment activities

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 final grade for the subject and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5. In case of retaking, the maximum grade will be 5 (Pass).

The lecturer will inform students in writing of the retake procedure involved when publishing final grades prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities. Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for. Any student that takes a resit, will have their final grade capped at 5 regardless of individual marks obtained.

Classification as "not assessable"

In the event that the assessment activities a student has performed account for 25% or less of the final grade for the subject, their work will be classified as "not assessable" on their transcript.

Misconduct in assessment activities

Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, 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 student involved will be given a final grade of “0” for the subject. Assessment activities in which irregularities have occurred (e.g. plagiarism, copying, impersonation) are excluded from resits.

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 a valid identification document with a recent photograph (student card, DNI/NIE or passport).

Single assessment activities

The breakdown for single assessment is the following:

• Reading activity (10%)
• Two writing activities of which one on the set book is obligatory (30%)
• Oral exam (10%)
• Text summary (25%)
• Use of English (10%)

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