2023
English Language VI
Name: English Language VI
Code: LLT10813L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Linguistics
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
This curricular unit aims at developing the students English language skills by providing opportunities to engage in communicative activities in written and oral reception, production and interaction, within the descriptors identified in the CEFR level C2.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
(CEFR Level C2)
Objectives: understand with ease virtually everything heard or read;
summarise information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments
and accounts in a coherent presentation. Competences: can produce clear, smoothly flowing
well-structured speech with an effective logical structure; can write clear, smoothly flowing,
complex texts in an appropriate and effective and a logical structure; has no difficulty in
understanding any kind of spoken language, delivered at fast native speech; can understand
and interpret critically virtually all forms of written language; can convey finer shades of
meaning precisely by using, with reasonable accuracy, a wide range of modification devices;
can express him/herself with clarity and precision, relating to the addressee flexibly and effectively.
Objectives: understand with ease virtually everything heard or read;
summarise information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments
and accounts in a coherent presentation. Competences: can produce clear, smoothly flowing
well-structured speech with an effective logical structure; can write clear, smoothly flowing,
complex texts in an appropriate and effective and a logical structure; has no difficulty in
understanding any kind of spoken language, delivered at fast native speech; can understand
and interpret critically virtually all forms of written language; can convey finer shades of
meaning precisely by using, with reasonable accuracy, a wide range of modification devices;
can express him/herself with clarity and precision, relating to the addressee flexibly and effectively.
Contents
Oral production: giving a presentation (speaking from notes: diagrams, pictures, charts, etc.)
Written production: the academic essay
Listening comprehension: interviews and academic presentations by non-native speakers
Reading comprehension: academic articles
Spoken interaction: debating (current social issues)
Written interaction: online conference
Vocabulary: idiomatic American English
Grammar: noun clauses; relative clauses; conditionals; adverbial clauses; connectors and focus structures.
Written production: the academic essay
Listening comprehension: interviews and academic presentations by non-native speakers
Reading comprehension: academic articles
Spoken interaction: debating (current social issues)
Written interaction: online conference
Vocabulary: idiomatic American English
Grammar: noun clauses; relative clauses; conditionals; adverbial clauses; connectors and focus structures.
Teaching Methods
According to the descriptors established for the level C2 in the CEFR, the methodology
adopted will focus on the acquisition and development of oral and written skills (production,
reception and interaction), grammar practice and vocabulary enhancement: direct exposure to
authentic use of language (through videos, written texts - newspapers, magazines, etc. -
Internet, CD-ROM, among others); direct participation in communicative interaction;
presentations, explanations, exercises/exploitation activities; translation (native
language/foreign language/native language); individual, pair and group working; contribution to
formal and informal discussions; guided study; autodidactically, by self-study.
Students may choose between two modes of assessment:
(1) Continuous assessment: a. Written quiz (35%); b. Oral quiz (25%); c. Assignments, throughout the semester, in and
at home (40%); (2) Exam: a. Written exam (60%); b. Oral exam (40%).
adopted will focus on the acquisition and development of oral and written skills (production,
reception and interaction), grammar practice and vocabulary enhancement: direct exposure to
authentic use of language (through videos, written texts - newspapers, magazines, etc. -
Internet, CD-ROM, among others); direct participation in communicative interaction;
presentations, explanations, exercises/exploitation activities; translation (native
language/foreign language/native language); individual, pair and group working; contribution to
formal and informal discussions; guided study; autodidactically, by self-study.
Students may choose between two modes of assessment:
(1) Continuous assessment: a. Written quiz (35%); b. Oral quiz (25%); c. Assignments, throughout the semester, in and
at home (40%); (2) Exam: a. Written exam (60%); b. Oral exam (40%).
Teaching Staff
- Jean Antunes
- Luís Sérgio Pinto Guerra [responsible]
Certificações
