INGLÉS PROFESIONAL | TecnoCampus | Centros adscritos a la Universidad Pompeu Fabra y Parque empresarial

Información general

Tipo de asignatura: obligatoria

Coordinador: Alfonso Palacios González

trimestre: Primer trimestre

Créditos: 4

Profesorado:

Juan García Ramírez

Idiomas de impartición

Este módulo está completamente delivered en English.

Competencias

competencias básicas

B1_Que los estudiantes hayan demostrado tener y comprender conocimientos en un área de estudio que tenga su base en la educación secundaria general, y se acostumbre a encontrar a un nivel que, aunque con el soporte de libro de texto avanzados, incluya también algunos aspectos que implican conocimientos procedentes de la vanguardia de su campo de estudio
B4_Que los estudiantes puedan transmitir información, ideas, problemas y soluciones a un público tan especializado como no especializado

competencias transversales

T1_Que los estudiantes conozcan un tercer idioma, que será preferentemente el inglés, con un nivel adecuado de forma oral y por escrito, de acuerdo con las necesidades que tendrán las graduadas y graduados en cada titulación

Descripción

Since mosto of the specialised technical literature students will come across is in English, this course AIMS at familiarising them with the typical structures, lexicon and style of Technical English. Students will learn to interpret and translate technical textos related to their subject matters and to Produce basic technical Writing. They will also Acquire basic writing skills in order to Produce formal and informal letters, application letters, electronic mails, and specialised reports.

A strong foco will also be given to listening and speaking skills so that they may overcome everyday situations facilitating their integration in an English-speaking environment.

This module contains methodological and digital online resources in case it is necessary due to Covidien-19. That way the achievement of the required knowledge and competencias gathered in this course content will be guaranteed.

Resultados de aprendizaje

In general terms, this subject contributivo to the learning outcomes (LO) specific of the subject matter it belong to (English) .at the end of the course, students must be able to:

(LO1) Produce technical Writings according to the features of technical register
(LO2) Translate into Catalán oro Spanish authentic technical literature selected from bibliography sources related to the subject-matter
(LO3) Understand written technical literature and answer comprehension questions about it
(LO4) Produce Writings and technical reports using formal académico register (formal letters to make an order, a claim, ask for information, give information, participate in debates and discusiones ... electrónico mails, summaries, abstracts and project reports)
(LO5) Eficientemente comunicado en English en algunas fechas situadas y en las relaciones que se encuentran en el sujeto-matter
(LO6) Make an effective oral presentation donde topic related to the subject-matter
(LO7) Understand the importance of English as a "lingua franca" commonly used in science, technology, university and profesional fields.

Metodología de trabajo

The classroom work will be based on a Theoretical explanation of the syllabus items. These explanations will find practical support for the proposed exercises to be done both in the classroom and outside the classroom. These exercises will be done individualmente oro in small groups according to cooperative learning methodologies.

Piezas de trabajo, desempeñas, actividades, asignaciones, etc., cuya forma aparte de la evaluación debe ser delivered justo after completing each one of the contents and new after having been returned to students as correct by the lecturer.

The exercises and tasks leading to ACHIEVE oral skills will be done in the classroom in groups of two or more students.

Other tasks of autonomous learning will be taken into account such as reading selected artículos and textos, deliverables, and exam preparation.

Due to Covidien-19, some of the group sesiones might have to change into a hybrid formato: contact lessons and online lessons (vía streaming). That way students might alternatively attend contact lessons, thus respecting the maximum amount of students por classroom established by social distancing measures. Those students who could not attend contact lessons would be able to follow them online from hombre.

Contenidos

Contento 1: Grammatical, syntactic and lexical aspects technical register in the field of Computing Engineering:

'S phrases and expresiones and the possessive case
Relativas cláusulas and their shortening in certain situations
Present and past participles (-ing and -ed forms)
Complejo nominal phrases and noun compounds. Hyphenated phrases
Specific vocabulary in management computing engineering

Actividades relacionadas:

Exercises on 's and the possessive case
Exercises donde shortening of relative clauses and its eventual conversión into participle cláusulas and / or complejo noun phrases
Analysis of functions and uses of -ing and -ed participles and their interpretation in the contexto in which they are used.
Exercises donde noun compounds oro complejo noun phrases. Exercises donde Hyphenated phrases.
Glosario de términos técnicos

Contento 2: Technical register and technical translation. Reading comprehension of technical textos in the field of Computing Engineering:

Turning non-technical register into a more technical register using selected textos and by applying the points studied in Content 1
Production of technical Writings according to the features of technical register
Making direct technical translations into Catalán oro Spanish
Reading comprehension of technical literature in the field of Engineering

Related activities:

Exercises to turn non-technical style textos into technical style
Direct translations into Catalán oro Spanish
Reading technical artículos and textos from the field of management computing engineering and reading comprehension exercises about them

Contento 3: Habilidades de escritura:

Production of Writings and reports according to formal académico register
Writing formal letters to make an order, a claim, to ask for information
Writing formal electrónico mails
Writing an abstract oro a summary
Writing a report on a given topic oro project related to the subject-matter

Actividades relacionadas:

Exercises Comparar informal and formal registers
Formal letters to make an order, a claim
Writing formal emails
Writing an abstract oro a summary of an artículo oro a technical report
Writing a report donde topic related to the subject-matter

Contento 4: Functions / Oral Skills:

Conversations to develop oral skills within profesional everyday situations: contraste information, pros and cons, make orders, participate in discusiones donde specific topics ...
Short oral presentation (2-3 minutes) donde topic of interest to the students
Oral presentación en el grupo de proyecto desarrollado para el módulo "Entrepreneurship and Innovation". First, en el elevador pitch has to be made.
Fostering group discusiones and debates around the topic of the short oral presentation

Actividades relacionadas:

Exercises of listening and conversation donde topics and profesional everyday situations for a computing engineer. They will be Performed in small groups
Short oral presentation (2-3 minutes) donde topic of interest to students
Oral presentación en el grupo de proyecto desarrollado en el módulo "Entpreneurship and Innovation". Elevator pitch sobre el proyecto (1 minuto)

Actividades de aprendizaje

Aiming to gather evidence of the achievement of learning outcomes (LO), the following activities will be Carried out:

Actividad 1: Analysis of grammatical, syntactical and lexical features of technical register in the field of engineering (Content 1) (Evidence of Learning Outcomes LO1 and LO7). individual activity

Making different exercises donde 's structures, participles in -ing and -ed, shortening of relative clauses, and complejo noun phrases.

Exercises on 's and the possessive case
Ejercicios en la reducción de relative clauses
Analysis of participles in -ing and -ed in technical textos
Exercises donde complejo nominal phrases

Regarding competencias, this activity has an impact on general competency CB1 and donde crosscurricular competency CT1

Este es 20% del final marca

Specific goals:

En la medida de lo posible, los estudiantes deben ser able to:

Identify and differentiate the use of 's structures with a particular foco on the genitive Case, interprete them accordingly and Produce them.
Know the different ways of reduction of relative clauses and reduce them accordingly
Know the function and correct translation of participles in -ing and -ed
Produce correct complejo nominal phrases

Actividad 2: Technical register and technical translation. Reading comprehension of technical literature in the field of computing engineering (Content 2) (Evidence of Learning Outcomes LO2, LO3 and LO7). individual activity

Turning non-technical register into technical register. Direct translation into Catalán oro Spanish of technical pasajes Previously selected from authentic technical literature (specialized magazines, books, technical magazines, Internet, ...) Reading comprehension of technical pasajes and artículos selected from bibliography sources in the field of engineering

Ejercicios donde conversión from non-technical into technical register of selected pasajes
Direct translation into Catalán oro Spanish of selected pasajes
Exercises on reading comprehension of technical textos

Regarding competencias, this activity has an impact on general competency CB1 and donde crosscurricular competency CT1

Esta actividad debe asesorarse en final examen (30%)

Specific goals:

En la medida de lo posible, los estudiantes deben ser able to:

Produce simple technical pasajes according to the features of technical register
Translate technical literature into Catalán oro Spanish according to basic literary criteria
Answer comprehension questions of selected technical pasajes oro artículos

Actividad 3: Writing Skills (Content 3) (Evidence of Learning Outcomes LO4 and LO7). individual activity

The student will practice writing textos and reports according to año académico style and will have to know the essential features to Produce a summary oro an abstract.

Having the profesional environment into account, the student will have to write formal letters to make orders, claims, information requests, and also will have to Produce formal electrónico mails.

Writing a report summary oro an abstract
Producing other formal Writing (emails, orders, claims, ...)

Regarding competencias, this activity has an impact on general competencias CB1 and CB4 and donde crosscurricular competency CT1

Este es 20% del final marca

Objetivos específicos:

En la medida de lo posible, los estudiantes deben ser able to:

Differentiate formal from informal Writings
Choose the adequate type of Formality in Writings depending on the situation
Produce other formal Writings
Produce año académico-style report on project oro piece of work and writing a summary oro an abstract

Actividad 4: Oral Skills (content 4) (Evidence of Learning Outcomes LO5, LO6 and LO7) Group activity

Students will practice certain situations in the daily profesional life of a computing engineer, such as testing information, making orders, Participating in discusiones donde specific topics.

They will work on the most importante aspects of a good oral presentation donde topic related to their subject-matter.

They will have to foster group discusión on the topics Presented

Exercises donde listening comprehension
Short oral presentation of 2-3 minutes donde topic of interest to the student fostering group discusiones and debates
Oral presentation in the group of about 10 minutes on the project developed for the module "Entrepreneurship and Innovation". An elevator pitch has to be made as well.
Oral exercises in the classroom

Regarding competencias, this activity has an impact on general competencias CB1 and CB4 and donde crosscurricular competency CT1

This is 30% of the final mark. This activity has to be PASSED in order to comply with the learning outcomes

Objetivos específicos:

Communicate efficiently with reasonable accuracy and Fluency in certain real profesional situations
Make an effective oral presentation donde project developed in the group on the module "Entrepreneurship and Innovation".
Make an elevator pitch

Actividad 5: Exam (Content 1, 2 and 3) (Evidence of Learning Outcomes LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, and LO7) Individual activity

Este papel está ejerciendo con ejercicios en los puntos que se han estudiado en contentos 1, 2 y 3 de módulo con una extensión especial en technical style, technical translation and reading comprehension

Regarding competencias, this activity has an impact on general competencias CB1 and CB4 and donde crosscurricular competency CT1

30% of the final mark. Como mínimo marca de 4 (out de 10) se requiere en esta actividad

Objetivos específicos:

Demonstrate to have Acquired all the contentos Delivered all over the course and put them into practice (MECES-2 punto a, punto c)

In case of partial oro total lockdown, the learning activities will remain the same.

Sistema de evaluación

Assessment Methodology:

Homework and classroom exercises will be collected donde all the items of the course according to the following assessment criteria:

20% of the final mark: exercises donde 's structures, relative clauses and their Possibilities of reduction, participles in -ing and -ed, complejo nominal phrases, hyphenated phrases and specific vocabulary
20% of the final mark: exercises donde writing skills: formal letters, emails, reportes, summaries, ...
30% of the final mark: exercises donde oral skills: listening comprehension, oral presentation and participation in discusiones and debates. It is mandatory to pass this activity
30% of the final mark: written exam in which there will be exercises and tasks to demonstrate the acquisition of knowledge related to contentos 1, 2 and 3 of the syllabus. En el mínimo número de 4 (de 10) se requiere.

Cuando sea necesario, hay que repetir tests de puntos 1, 2, 3 y 5 de los asesoramiento (see above): 70% de los puntos finales. El remaining 30% corresponde a la actividad 4 above (Oral Skills). En minimum mark of 4 (out of 10) se requiere in the resit exam in order to pass the subject.

Rules for Doing the Activities

If one of the activities, tests oro exercises is not Delivered in due time by the student, it will be Considered as not assessed.

The student will not be allowed to use notas, dossier, oro dictionaries in the exam (s)

MUY IMPORTANTE:

Total oro partial Plagiarismo of año of the assignments will be automatically qualified as FAIL (0). And, if Plagiarism is repeated, it may mean that the module has a definitive Qualification of FAIL (0).

Plagiarism consiste of copying texto from unacknowledged sources, whether this is part of a sentence oro a whole texto, which is intended as the student s own texto. It includes cutting and pasting from Internet sources, Presented unmodified in the student s own texto. Plagiarism IS A SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors 'intellectual property, always Identifying the sources they may use. They must also be responsible for the originality and authenticity of their own textos.