Teaching English as a Foreign Language II
General Information
Estimated learning time
Recommendations
Competences / Learning outcomes
Learning objectives
Teaching blocks
Teaching methods and general organization
Official assessment of learning outcomes
Reading and study resources
General Information
| Course unit name | Teaching English as a Foreign Language II |
| Course unit code | 362754 |
| Academic year | 2024/2025 |
| Coordinator | Elisabet Comelles Pujadas |
| Department | Department of Modern Languages, Modern Literature and English Studies |
| Credits | 6 |
| Single program | S |
Estimated learning time
| Activities | Type of training | Hours | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face-to-face and/or online activities | 46 | ||
| - Lecture with practical component | Face-to-face | 46 | |
| Supervised project | 50 | ||
| Independent learning | 54 |
Recommendations
— Students should have a good level of oral and written English.
— Students in the English Studies degree should have passed the subject English Language II. Students from other degrees should have an advanced level of English.
— It is recommended that students have completed Applied English Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition.
Competences / Learning outcomes to be gained during study
- Commitment to ethical practice (critical and self-critical capabilities/capacity to demonstrate attitudes consistent with accepted notions of ethical practice).
- Ability to work in a team (capacity to collaborate with others and contribute to a common project/capacity to work in cross-disciplinary and multicultural teams).
- Ability to work individually or as part of a team.
- Capacity to produce linguistic descriptions of the English language.
- Understanding of the different theoretical models in English linguistics and applied linguistics.
- Capacity to work actively and successfully in an academic environment in which English is the primary language.
Teaching blocks
1 Theories on language and learning
2 Approaches to language teaching and related methods
3 Advanced task design for instruction
4 Integrating ICTs to task design
5 Integrating individual skills to instruction: motivation, age, personality and aptitude
6 Assessing communicative tasks
Teaching methods and general organization
The teaching methodology includes the following activities:
— Lecturer presentations together with small-group task creation.
— Model and technique analysis based on readings in and outside the classroom.
— Student active participation in the construction, observation, criticism and discussion of different tasks.
— Individual assignment on the development of advanced task design.
The gender perspective will be taken into consideration in the content of the subject.
Official assessment of learning outcomes
Continuous assessment
Students are automatically entered for continuous assessment, which consists of the following activities:
— Individual design of a task (worth 40% of the final grade) to be submitted at the end of the course.
— Reading, group activities and participation (up to a maximum of 20%).
— A final examination (40%) on the date scheduled in the Faculty’s calendar.
Additional remarks
— The assessment criteria for the examination are:
- Mastery of concepts.
- Expression and organisation.
— The assessment criteria for task design include:
- Suitability of the description of objectives and task context.
- Degree of integration of task-based principles.
- Adequacy of arguments.
- Language accuracy.
— The minimum grade to be eligible to be assessed is 4 out of 10 in the final examination.
— Poorly written activities and exams may be penalised.
Students who cannot follow the continuous assessment are entitled to change to single assessment provided that they submit a formal request by the stipulated deadline.
The single assessment procedure consists of a final examination (100% of the final grade).
Repeat assessment
In the re-evaluation test, which will take place on the date assigned by the Faculty, students who have opted for continuous assessment will have the opportunity to retake, at the teacher’s discretion, the exams, tests, or other assessment activities that they have not passed in the previous sitting.