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AnNual Course : 8 (eight) hours of class a week

- plus periodical individual interviews -

-To take this course students must be regular in the following subjects :
Lengua Inglesa I and Introducción a la Gramática

STAFF MEMBERS:

PROFESOR ASOCIADO: Prof. Marta León de Mondino
PROFESOR ADJUNTO: Prof. Mónica Díaz Romero
JEFE DE TRABAJOS PRÁCTICOS: Prof. Verónica Sánchez de Cabot
JEFE DE TRABAJOS PRÁCTICOS: Prof. Nora Lía Villagra Márquez 
AUXILIAR DOCENTE GRADUADO: Prof. Patricia Córdoba
AUXILIAR DOCENTE GRADUADO: Prof. Edith Díaz Yurko de Rengel
AUXILIAR ESTUDIANTIL: Luís Navarro
AUXILIAR ESTUDIANTIL: Pamela Katz


AIMS :
·      To take the students a stage further in the process of acquisition of communicative competence.

·      To enable the students to communicate fluently and accurately in a wide range of situations and speech events.

·      To provide the students with adequate knowledge about the language so they can account for its use.

·      To help the students develop their own studying strategies and vocabulary learning skills.

·      To expose the students to as much authentic spoken and written language as possible.

·      To engage the students in stimulating, challenging and interactive communicative tasks.

·      To raise the students’ level of awareness of mistakes.

·      To encourage critical thinking.

·      To help the students develop different strategies for reading comprehension.

·      To enable the students to communicate through writing in a wide range of forms.

·      To raise awareness of cross-cultural differences and strengthen the students’ sense of identity.

 

 

CONTENTS:

The topics and structures to be dealt with in the language learning process will be those presented in the text books used in the course, the reading material and specially designed booklets and study guides with activities obeying to students’ interests.

See bibliography given below.

Upstream (upper intermediate) LANGUAGE USE:

·      Interaction between students and teacher

·      Interaction  among students (pair work and group work – small /large)

·      Interviewing native speakers

·      Communicative tasks

·      Role-play / Drama – one act plays / Song representations

·      Vocabulary development

·      Reading and oral comprehension exercises: reordering jumbled texts, finding the suitable heading, jigsaw reading, summarising, identifying the speakers, listening for specific information, creating the other side of the conversation, retelling the story, etc.

·      The writing process (generating ideas, organising , planning, writing, revising, editing)

·      Intensive reading (short stories, articles, news reports, etc.)

·      Extensive reading (novels, plays, magazine and newspaper articles, information downloaded from the Internet, etc.)

·      Seeking  and selecting information from different sources

·      Oral reports (individually and in small groups)

EVALUATION:

 

• Written :

-PRÁCTICOS: Papers including different types of written exercises based on the contents dealt with in class.

-PARCIALES: Global assessment focusing on the use of English (listening reading and writing activities), short stories and American and British culture.
At least 4 (four).

 

• Oral:

-PRÁCTICOS : Periodical interviews (in small groups) on the short stories/ books assigned for reading.

 

• Students must pass a minimum of 75% of PRÁCTICOS and PARCIALES.

 

• FINAL EXAM :

-Students must pass a final exam (written and oral).

-Students must show their proficiency in their understanding and use of English at First Certificate English level.


BIBLIOGRAPHY :

 

b) Intensive Reading Material :

c) Set Books for Extensive Reading :

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