Idioma 5 (anglès) (20179)

Competències (generals i específiques del pla d'estudis)

Objectius avaluables o resultats d'aprenentatge

G.03. Raonament crític
G.04. Cerca documental i de fonts de recerca
G.20. Capacitat d'aprenentatge autònom i de formació continuada
E.03a. Capacitat de comprensió (a nivell C1)
E.03b. Capacitat d'expressió i d'interacció (a nivell C1)
E.04. Coneixement de cultures i civilitzacions estrangeres
E.09. Capacitat d'anàlisi i reflexió sobre la llengua i el discurs.

• Saber detectar marques de modalitat i analitzar-ne el significat (E.09)
• Saber captar l'estructura del sintagma adverbial i el sintagma adjectiu així com les diferents possibilitats de col·locació a l'oració (E.09)
• Saber detectar estructures marcades i analitzar-ne els contextos i els significats (E.09)
• Saber captar l'estructura d'un text i distingir diferents tipus de connexió entre les idees expressades (E.09)
• Saber captar el sentit de les marques de modalitat (E.03a)
• Saber captar diferències de significat entre estructures no marcades i estructures marcades (E.03a)
• Saber captar lligams entre les idees a partir dels connectors oracionals i discursius (E.03a)
• Saber modalitzar el discurs i utilitzar marques de modalitat (E.03b)
• Saber ajustar l'ordre de paraules a les necessitats pragmàtiques i d'embalatge de la informació, utilitzant estructures marcades i no marcades en els contextos adequats (E.03b)
• Saber escriure textos argumentatius ben organitzats i amb una connexió clara de les idees (E.03b)

Continguts

1. The expression of modality: review and advanced topics
2. The Adjective Phrase. Modifiers, intensifiers, discontinuous adjective/complement structures
3. The Adverbial Phrase. Form and meaning: enriching verbal/sentential descriptions via adverbials. The effect of its position on its meaning. Adverbs and the scope of negation.
4. Information packaging in English: Basic concepts (given-new information, theme-rheme, weight)
5. Beyond the basic sentence structure: passives
6. Beyond the basic sentence structure: extraposition
7. Syntax and information packaging: Preposing. Locative inversions.
8. Syntax and information packaging: Clefts and pseudo-clefts.
9. Information packaging: resources in spoken language (sentence accent, English-Catalan/Spanish contrastive aspects)
10. Focus adverbs
11.Connectives. Argumentative relations: adversative, concessive, causal, additive, etc.

Metodologia
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This course comprises two terms. Students will get a single final grade in June based on the grades obtained in each term.

The course is worth 8 ECTS (4 per term). 4 ECTS involve 100 hours of student work, 25 devoted to in-class sessions and the rest to individual work. There are two types of in-class sessions:

• GGran (GG): these are devoted to the discussion of the grammar contents and to practice activities.
• GSeminar (GS): these are devoted to the improvement of the four basic skills.

Individual work will be devoted to:
- tasks proposed by the GG instructors
- tasks proposed by the GS instructors
- Self-study of English through additional materials

Avaluació

Ordinària

• Exams: First Term exam (March) and Second Term exam (June) that will assess the academic component ("theory"): 30% of the final mark. Students must take and pass both exams.
• Continuous assessment: 50% of the mark, as follows:
  + Grup Gran: 20%: Grammar essay questions and/or preparatory activities, etc. Students must do the work for each term.
  + Seminari: 30%: Students must do the work assigned each term.
• Language competence test: By the end of Idioma 5/6, students are expected to have a C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Language competence will be assessed by means of a test or set of tests. The results for this test or set of tests will be worth 20% of the final mark only if a pass is obtained. Please note that these specific language competence tests do not replace UPF's "PCCL" (Prova Certificadora de Competència Lingüística). Students are strongly advised to take the PCCL as well, as this is the only examination with certifying effects at the UPF level. The PCCL, however, tests your competence at a lower CEFR level (B2).
• NOTE that all three items will have to be individually passed in order to pass the course.

Extraordinària (setembre)

• Exam: It will assess the academic content of the "grup gran" and the "seminari" for both the First Term and the Second Term (70% of the grade)
• Language competence test: Defined as above; worth 30% of the grade.

Fonts (5 títols de bibliografia)

Biber, Douglas et al. 1999. Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English.  Longman.
Downing, Angela and Philip Locke. 2002. A University Course of English Grammar. Harcourt.
Finegan, Edward. 1994. Language: its Structure and Use.  Hartcourt Brace and Company. 2nd ed. Chapter 7: Pragmatics: Information Structure, especially "Pragmatic Categories and Syntax".
Greenbaum, Sidney. 1991. An Introduction to English Grammar. Longman.
Greenbaum, Sidney and Randolph Quirk. 1990. A Student's Grammar of the English Language. Longman.
Huddleston, Rodney, and Geoffrey K. Pullum. 2005. A Student's  Introduction to English grammar. Cambridge University Press.
Williams, Joseph M. 1990. Style. The University of Chicago Press.