2023/24
26142 - English: Specific Language for Social Work I
108 - Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y del Trabajo
4 and 3
Optional
1. General information
The English language is essential in the process of globalization, which has intensified migratory flows . It is the lingua franca in international communication and in the dissemination of academic knowledge . It is therefore necessary to manage it if you want to participate in these processes, obtain a competitive advantage in the labor market and have access to the latest advances inscientific knowledge.
These approaches and goals are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations Agenda 2030, so that the acquisition of the learning results of the subject provides training and competence to contribute to some extent to their achievement. The goals considered are: quality education, gender equality, reduction of inequalities, end of poverty.
5. Assessment system
Continuous assessment (80% of sessions must be attended)
1. Mandatory "flipped classroom" preparatory assignments (15%): tests, video tutorials, mini-texts... Yes a student fails to complete an assignment without justification will receive a 0. The maximum number of activities not carried out will be 5. Minimum 'compensable' average grade of 4 in each unit required.
2. Two Grammar & Vocabulary tests (30%): error correction, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, rewriting... Minimum 'compensable' grade of 4 in each of the two.
3. Skills test (reading; listening; writing) (55%). Themes related to any of the units.
It is necessary to obtain a minimum 'compensable' grade of 4 in each of the parts of this test.
Single evaluation
1. Grammar & Vocabulary test (35%): error correction, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanks, rewriting...
2. Skills test (65%). Themes related to any of the units. A minimum 'compensable' score of 4 in each of the parts of this testmust be obtained.
It will be necessary to obtain a minimum of 5 in each of the parts to pass the subject. For the students who do not achieve this grade, their generic grade in the minutes will be 4 (Fail).
Possibility of an oral test at the end of the term (mandatory for MH). It will be added to the final grade provided it is >5.