Educational guide 2023_24
Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución
Grado en Lenguas Extranjeras
 Subjects
  Language for specific purposes
   Assessment
  Description Qualification Training and Learning Results
Problem and/or exercise solving Exercises, related to the contents of the course, done inside or outside the classroom, with or without prior notice, which will assessed by the lecturer(s). These tasks complement the lectures. 30 A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
B1
B4
B5
B6
B9
B13
C56
C57
C58
C59
C60
C62
C64
Essay questions exam Mid-term written exam covering the theoretical and practical contents of the subject. 30 A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
B4
B5
B6
B9
C56
C57
C58
C59
C60
C62
Essay questions exam Final written exam covering the theoretical and practical contents of the subject. 40 A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
B4
B5
B6
B9
C56
C57
C58
C59
C60
C62
 
Other comments on the Evaluation

FIRST EDITION OF
RECORDS
 (May)

1. Continuous
assessment

In the continuous
assessment system, the following mandatory parameters will be assessed (their
corresponding percentages of the final grade are provided in brackets):


  1. Problem and/or exercise solving (30%).

  2. Mid-term written exam (30%). This exam will take place during
    the term period and the date will be announced in class, at least two
    weeks in advance.

  3. Final written exam (40%). This exam will take place
    during the official exam period on the date approved by the Faculty Board
    and published on the Faculty's website.

To pass the course in
continuous assessment students must obtain 5 out of 10 points in the
average grade
. It is an essential requirement to obtain a minimum grade
of 5 out of 10 points in the continuous assessment exercises and in each of the two written exams. Students not
satisfying these two requirements will not pass the course, even if the
average grade of the four items is 5 or higher.



By default, it is
assumed that students will opt for continuous assessment, unless they inform
the lecturer(s) at the beginning of the course, within
the first two weeks
, that they opt for the exam-only assessment system.
If that is the case, they will be assessed according to the procedures
described in 2. Exam-only assessment.

Participation in one
of the assessment options implies the impossibility of participating in the
other. The completion of one or more continuous assessment tasks implies the
acceptance of the continuous assessment option. Students opting for the
continuous assessment option will not be able to sit the official final written
exam corresponding to the exam-only assessment option in the first edition of
records (May).

2. Exam-only
assessment
 

Students who cannot
follow the continuous assessment system and inform the lecturer(s) in due time
(see 1. Continous assessment) will be assessed on the basis of a
single final written exam that will cover all the theoretical
and practical contents of the subject and will account for 100% of
the grade. A minimum grade of 5 out of 10 is
required to pass the subject. 

This exam will take
place during the official exam period on the date approved by the Faculty Board
and published on the Faculty's website.

SECOND EDITION
OF RECORDS
 (June,
retake exam)

Students who


  • do not sit the exam(s) and do not do any of the continuous assessment tasks in the first
    edition of records, or

  • fail all the continuous assessment activities



will be assessed on
the basis of a single final written exam that will cover
all the theoretical and practical contents of the subject and will account for 100% of
the grade. To pass the subject, a 5 out of 10 must be obtained.

Students who do
not pass the subject in the first edition of records but pass any of the
continuous assessment tasks (problem and/or exercise solving, written exams) will only have
to sit the failed parts. If they do not pass the subject in the second
edition of records, they will have to take the entire course in subsequent
academic years. To pass the subject, a 5 out of 10 must be obtained.

The single final
written exam, in any modality, will take place during the official exam period
on the date approved by the Faculty Board and published on the Faculty's
website. 


Important remarks: 

  • Class attendance is
    highly recommended. 
  • Exams and continuous
    assessment tasks are considered official and, therefore, a change of
    date must always be duly justified by force majeure
     (accident, surgery
    or death of a first-degree relative on the exact date of the activity) and,
    whenever possible, students must inform the lecturer(s) prior to the date of
    the activity. 
  • The same
    criteria
     described in this section will also be applied to Erasmus
    students
    . All exams and continuous assessment tests will be
    face-to-face. It is the student's responsibility to be in Vigo to
    take these tests
    , including those of the second edition of records. No
    online exams will be conducted. 
  • It is the student's
    resposibility to be aware of the dates on which the assessment
    tests 
    take place. There is no obligation to communicate the dates
    through the eLearning platform. 
  • In the evaluation of
    the course, not only the content will be taken into account, but also the linguistic
    correctness 
    of the tests. The non-compliance with the latter may result in a fail.  
  • The use of
    dictionaries, computers or other electronic devices, with or
    without internet connection, is not allowed during the tests, unless otherwise
    instructed by the lecturer(s) for educational purposes.

FRAUDULENT
PERFORMANCE
:

In accordance with
Articles 40-42 of the Regulation
on the evaluation, grading and quality of teaching and the student 
learning
process
, approved by the university senate on April 18, 2023, 

Plagiarism is understood as the total or
partial copying
 of texts or other elements (software, images,
graphics, etc.) as if they were self-made without citing their
origin
, including the use of digital media. On the other hand, academic
fraud
 is understood as any premeditated behavior aimed at falsifying
the results
 of an exam or work, whether one's own or someone
else's, taken as a requirement to pass a subject or to accredit academic
performance. (See Article 41 about the circumstance that involve
fraudulent performance.) 

Fraudulent action
in any evaluation activity will result in a zero (fail) final grade
 in the corresponding
edition of records, regardless of the grade of the activity in
question in the overall grade of the subject and without prejudice to the
possible consequences of disciplinary nature that may occur. 

Alleging ignorance of
what plagiarism or academic fraud implies will not exempt students from their
responsibility in this regard.

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