Programacion language center

UNIVERSITY OF NARIÑO

LANGUAGE CENTER

LEVEL: I

NUMBER OF HOURS: 8 HOURS A WEEK

TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS PER SEMESTER: 128

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This program has been designed in order to provide students with useful strategies that they can apply to improve their learning in each activity; taking into account the practice of the five skills; that will be developed by participating in this course. It will also be important to encourage students to take part in meaningful activities to use authentic material from videos and internet, magazines, course books, music and socio cultural articles in order to develop their language skills in English.

COURSE OBJECTIVE

To provide an interesting and useful selection of personal topics that allow students to talk about themselves, their families and friends.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

In addition, students will be able to:

¬ Use English through a variety of tasks.

¬ Design their own material to understand vocabulary and given structures

¬ To take part in role plays

¬ Talk about their own experiences in a natural way

¬ Express their own opinions according to a given topic.

¬ Read and write about the studied topics

¬ Individual and group presentations

METHODOLOGY

We will apply task-based activities with controlled and free activities but using communicative techniques most of the time. The students will have a lot of opportunities to use the target language to communicate with each other by reading and writing, doing comprehension activities, listening activities, descriptions, oral presentations, sketches, story telling and situational activities.

COURSE MATERIAL

Sue Kay and Vaughan Jones. (2003). AMERICAN INSIDE OUT ELEMENTARY. (Units 1 to 13) Macmillan Press.

GRADING INFORMATION AND CRITERIA

The students will be evaluated in class through written and oral exams and different activities such as workshops, debates, reading comprehensions, guides, assigned readings and oral presentations. When an evaluation is missed the grade will be zero, except for those who have health problems and present a written permission, for that reason the test will be programmed in advanced so, every body will know when it will be.

The final grade for the course is established as follows:

First written and oral exam 20 %

Second written and oral exam 20 %

Final Written and oral exam (all units) 40%

Complementary activities 20%

GOALS OF EACH UNIT:

Unit 0: Classroom

Encourage students to use commands and classroom rules in English in order to set up an English environment, and to assess students’ former knowledge.

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