Degree | Type | Year |
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2504212 English Studies | OB | 2 |
2504380 English and Catalan Studies | OB | 3 |
2504386 English and Spanish Studies | OB | 3 |
2504393 English and French Studies | OB | 3 |
2504394 English and Classics Studies | OB | 3 |
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C2 level (proficiency) del Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment.
Students are discouraged from enrolling in this subject if they have not passed the first year SLAP I course.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SUBJECT
The main aim of this course is to provide an introduction to the principles of general phonetic description and taxonomy from an articulatory point of view. A description of the sounds of English will be provided and students will practice hearing and producing the linguistically relevant differences in English. Students will acquire working knowledge of phonological and phonetic transcription. The principles of phonological analysis will be presented. Students are introduced to the principles of articulatory description by means of class presentations by the teacher, together with the comments in class of readings done by the students at home. All this is complemented by extensive exercising throughout the semester. Students will practice transcription and reading during the whole course, both in class, in tutorials and at home.
Specific objectives.
Students will be able
1) to describe and to explain the production of speech sounds;
2) to classify and describe English sounds articulatorily;
3) to do phonological and phonetic transcription, and read words and phrases in transcription;
4) to carry out contrastive analysis and phonological analysis, and
5) to detect and assess areas of English pronunciation that of particular difficulty for native speakers of Catalan and Spanish, and to attempt to perceive and produce English sounds accurately.
SYLLABUS
UNIT 1. Introduction to phonetics, phonology, transcription and the main standard varieties of English.
UNIT 2. Production of speech sounds, articulatory description and classification.
UNIT 3. The English consonant system: phonemes and main allophonic realizations. Contrastive analysis of English and Spanish/Catalan consonants.
UNIT 4. The English vowel system: phonemes and main allophonic realizations. Contrastive analysis of English and Spanish/Catalan vowels.
UNIT 5. Modification processes and connected speech
UNIT 6.Contrastive analysis of phonological systems of different languages or different varieties of one language.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures and practical classes | 50 | 2 | 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Assignment preparation | 25 | 1 | 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Study, test preparation and homework | 50 | 2 | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
Directed activities
General phonetics
Description of the articulation of English consonants and vowels and their classification
Classroom correction of homework. Pronunciation practice
Improvement of production and perception of English sounds
Supervised
Individual assignments, preparation of assignmetns and pronunciation practice
Dealing with theroetical contents
Identification of difficult aspects of English pronunciation
Phonetic transcription
Autonomous
Mastering the main notions of phonetics and phonology and apply them to the English language.
Describing the consonantal and vocalic phonemes of English and their realisations
Autonomous practice (including self-correction)
Identifying and working the difficult aspects of English pronunciation.
Assessment
Classroom correction of exercises
Understanding and explaining the basic theoretical notions of phonetics and phonology and their application to English phonetics and phonology, as well as a contrastive analysis between English and Spanish and Catalan.
Practice of phonological and phonetic transcription.
Acurate production of English sounds
Note: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and theircourses or modules through questionnaires.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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"Assignments" | 15 | 5.5 | 0.22 | 2, 5, 6, 7 |
Final exam | 30 | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
Homework, class exercises and participation 10% | 10 | 16 | 0.64 | 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
Midterm exam | 20 | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
Oral exam | 25 | 0.5 | 0.02 | 2, 7 |
The teaching methodology and the evaluation proposed in the guide may undergo some modification subject to the onsite teaching restrictions imposed by health authorities.
Assessment
Exact dates for all evaluation activities will be confirmed at the start of the course through a course calendar published on the class Moodle.
This subject does not incorporate the single-assessment option.
Note:
1) The assignments and the oral and written tests are compulsory.
2) To pass the course, the following conditions need to be fulfilled:
- The final oral exam and the final written exam need to be passed.
- The course average needs to be a pass (at least 5 out of 10).
3) Students will obtain a “Not assessed/Not submitted” course grade unless they have submitted more than one third of the assessment items.
4) The level of English will be taken into account when correcting exams and in the assessment of the final grade.
5) VERY IMPORTANT: Partial or total plagiarism will immediately result in a FAIL (0) for the plagiarised exercise. Repeated instances of plagiarism will result in a FAIL (0) of the whole subject. PLAGIARISING consists of copying text from unacknowledged sources -whether this is part of a sentence or a whole text- withthe intention of passingitoff as the student's own production. It includes cutting and pasting from internet sources, presented unmodified in the student's own text. Plagiarising 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 texts.
6) In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Irregularities refer, for instance, to copying in an exam, copying from sources without indiacting authorship, or a misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) such as presenting work as original that has been generated by an AI tool or programme. These evaluation activities will not be re-assessed.
7) In the case of a justifiable absence on the day of an exam, assignment or any other important task (for example, because of illness), the student must present the pertinent documentation in order to justify the absence. In that case, an alternative evaluation date may be offered, or a possible redistribution of the marks may be considered, if approved by the course coordinator.
Exam review
After each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedure and of the time and place for the exam/grade review.
Reassessment
At reassessment, only the oral exam and the final written exam can be retaken. In order to qualify for reassessment, the following conditions must apply:
- All the obligatory assessment items must have been carried out (see point 1 above). This means that if a student does not reach a pass average because some obligatory item or items have not been completed, the student will not have a chance to go to reassessment (for example, with a 5 in the written and the oral exams, and a 0 in the assignments that have not been completed, the average course mark would be a fail and there would be no opportunity of reassessment).
- The minimum overall course mark should be at least 3.5/10.
- The only written exam that can be retaken is the final exam. If a student fails the course because of a low mark in the midterm, the only way to reassess the exam is by retaking the final written exam.
- Students must submit at least 50% of the homework exercises for the ongoing assessment mark to be considered, otherwise the mark for this component (10%) will be 0.
- The maximum mark that can be obtained at reassessment is 5 (pass).
- The re-assessment dates are assigned by the university and will not be changed to suit individual students' needs.
- Lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the date and place of the reassessment exams.
Evaluation activities excluded from reassessment.
The following activities are not eligible for reassessment: the midterm written exam, the assignments and homework exercises. The midterm exam can only be reassessed by retaking the final exam (see Reassessment section).
Main readings:
Recommended bibliography
Online resources on English phonetics and transcription
Online resources on English pronunciation
Software used in class demonstrations (optional for students): Praat (www.praat.org), https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
See also the website English Phonetics and Pronunciation in Barcelona for an extensive and up-to-date list of online resources on general phonetics, English phonetics and pronunciation practice.
Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | English | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PAUL) Classroom practices | 2 | English | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PAUL) Classroom practices | 3 | English | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PAUL) Classroom practices | 4 | English | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PAUL) Classroom practices | 5 | English | first semester | morning-mixed |