LENG1150 English Fundamentals
Course Description
English Fundamentals is the first course of the integrated-skills basic cycle of the Academic English for Undergraduate Studies program. This course focuses on the development of basic skills in English, essential grammar structures, and vocabulary required for effective communication in general and academic contexts at a higher A1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The course provides an initial opportunity to learner to recognize and apply basic reading skills on everyday and academic texts, so they are able to cope effectively with academic and professional tasks in English at an early stage. English Fundamentals provides active opportunities for students to start discussing aspects of their routines, background, context, and matters in areas of immediate need in simple terms by using the task-based language learning approach to understand texts, speeches, graphs, and diagrams related to academic and everyday matters, to convey relevant information contained in simple, informational texts. This course offers learners basic critical thinking skills and strategies to properly start their autonomous language learning process. At this level, students work on their development of the four language skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking), and acquire essential grammar structures and vocabulary that will allow them to succeed in the university academic environment and in further social settings.
Course Goal
After successfully completing this course, students can give effective spoken academic presentations that involve the analysis of fake news and logical fallacies in commercials and political discourse. They can also develop speaking skills to effectively plan a university event, reach an agreement and negotiate an outcome. In terms of pronunciation, students can recognize, produce and monitor their production of target sounds that affect intelligibility among native Spanish speakers. Furthermore, they can identify and produce certain word and sentence level aspects of English pronunciation that help them to improve their speaking comprehension. In terms of listening, students will develop a range of micro-listening skills to help them process individual sounds, syllables, words and longer sentences that are connected to the real-world academic spoken tasks performed on this course.
By the end of the course, students are expected to meet the Course Goal and achieve the following proficiency levels in English according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR):
Reading A2
Writing A1
Listening A1
Speaking A1
Periodo en el que se ofrece el curso
202610
Idioma en el que se ofrece el curso
Español
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