Sistema de evaluación

La aprobación de los niveles requiere tanto de asistencia y desempeño en clase como de la aprobación de un examen final y de la presentación de un proyecto de final en cada módulo.

En el caso del examen, este incluirá las cuatro macrodestrezas lingüísticas, a saber:

-       Comprensión escrita (Reading),

-       Comprensión oral (Listening),

-       Producción escrita (Writing) y

-       Producción oral (Speaking)

Asimismo, dentro de cada macrodestreza, la prueba contempla también en sus criterios la evaluación de las tres microdestrezas lingüísticas:

-       Vocabulario (Vocabulary),

-       Pronunciación (Pronunciation) y

-       Gramática (Grammar).

En cuanto al proyecto final, este deberá ser acordado con el docente del curso y en todo caso versará sobre un tema desarrollado en las unidades de estudio (por ejemplo, imagen corporativa, cultura organizacional, clima laboral, networking, etc.).    

 

 

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM

 

Goals and objectives

Ø  Students will build a sense of community through cooperation, interaction, joy and fun.

a)      Students will be able to engage with their classmates in pairs or groups on language focused tasks, role-plays, dialogues, interviews and presentations.

b)      Students will be involved in fun warm-up activities focused on language practice as well as community building in every class.

c)      Students will be able to create the rules of the classroom, which will set the norms of behavior with their peers in and outside the classroom.

d)     Students will be able to collaborate to come up with a final group project in each level, in which they will have to communicate with their peers as well as the teacher in order to check their progress regularly.

Ø  Students will acquire profound communication skills that allow them to construct the English language knowledge throughout every level.

a)      Students will be able to use the through evolvement in different tasks that allow them to develop the four skills.

b)      Students will be able to talk about themselves and somebody else using written and oral language.

c)      Students will understand written and oral texts in which spoken language is used.

d)     Students will be able to practice the language through different communicative meaningful tasks.

Ø  Students will become aware of their own learning process and of the importance of extra-class practice as well as what helps them better to practice the language outside the classroom.

a)      Students will be able to work on some activities such as homework which will be checked weekly and which will be handed in to the teacher at the end of the course.

b)      Students will be able to practice outside the classroom through different resources such as books and websites.

c)      Students will be able to create a portfolio in which they will show evidence of their practice at home or with their classmates outside the classroom.

d)     Students will be participating in weekly feedback sessions in which they will express their feeling towards the language and their learning process.

e)      Students will keep a guided journal in which they will evaluate their own learning process regularly.

Ø  Students will be aware of the metalanguage and will build relationships among the elements studied.

a)      Students will be exposed to metalanguage in different ways, which include used and recycled by the teacher, peripherals (posters) and the textbook.

b)      Students will get familiar with the terms to describe the language through different tasks in which the metalanguage is used by students as well as the teacher.

c)      Students will engage in different grammaring activities which will provide them with the opportunity to focus on form, meaning and use.

Ø  Students will develop a positive attitude (motivation) towards the learning process while at the same time becoming more confident about using the target language.

a)      Students will be involved in a fun warm-up activity every class focused on language practice as well as community building.

b)      Students will practice the English language through non-traditional approaches such as Community Language Learning, Suggestopedia, Silent Way and Task –based approach.

c)      Students will be able to not only use the language to talk about topics that interests them and that are relevant to them in their environment such as themselves, their likes and dislikes, their family, their community; but also  to give customer support at their workplace.

d)     Students will engage in different communicative meaningful tasks in order to practice the language.