PROCEDIMIENTO: FORMULACIÓN O ACTUALIZACIÓN DEL PROYECTO ACADÉMICO EDUCATIVO-PAE PARA PROGRAMAS DE PREGRADO

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Fecha: 03 / 11 / 2020

PROGRAMA ACADÉMICO: GENERAL AREA- FOREIGN LANGUAGE

SEMESTRE: II / 2020

ASIGNATURA: English I

CÓDIGO: 8104725

PROFESSOR’S NAME: DANIEL FELIPE PINTO OJEDA

DESCRIPTION

The main objective of the General English Area at the INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE INSTITUTE is to develop the students’ communicative competence through the development of the four basic linguistic skills: reading comprehension, writing, listening, and speaking. Furthermore, grammar and vocabulary will be considered as two additional components of the course. The course emphasizes speaking and listening skills so that learners can be able to interact in different contexts by using English for international communication.

MISSION

The International Language Institute and its learning centers will promote the teaching and learning of languages: native, indigenous, sign language, among others. This will be done by taking into account the needs and interests of the university community, as well as that of the local, regional, national, and international environments through academic excellence parameters and openness to pedagogical and technological innovations.

VISION

The International Language Institute will respond to the different language teaching-learning needs. To do so, the International Language Institute will promote educational offers that harmonize with the current academic realities of the country. In addition, it will offer a variety of courses to attract new students to the fields of formal, non-formal, and continuing education for the university and external communities.

RATIONALE

The global demands and challenges of the 21st century require that its people be competent in the use of foreign languages. Globalization and technological advancements use English as the universal communicative instrument. Therefore, future professionals must be prepared to interact and outshine in the areas of socio-cultural development, science, research, and academia. In doing so, the English language becomes a fundamental tool in accessing scientific knowledge and deepening understanding in the research process itself, which creates a globally competitive society.

OBJECTIVES

To develop the communicative competence from a pre-intermediate level to the rank of level A1 taken as a reference from the Common European Framework of teaching languages, to make the students use the foreign language as a tool for accessing the scientific knowledge as well as to the contribution of their personal development.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

At the end of level 1 the student should:

• Introduce themselves and others.
• Produce simple phrases about people and places.
• Say short sentences and understand questions about people
• Ask and answer questions to find out information about people, including name, address, phone, age, nationality and job.
• Ask and answer questions about daily routines and telling the time using present simple.
• Talk about things they like or don’t like doing.
• Talk about present activities using the present continuous tense
• Describe people’s clothes, appearance and personality and ask for goods and services
• Write a description of a person.

METHODOLOGY

The communicative competence approach is meant to enhance thinking processes, such as induction, deduction, analysis, and synthesis. Additionally, this approach takes into account continuous interaction between the teacher and students, as well as stimulation of active and inductive learning in technology-mediated environments. Students will also be motivated to deduce grammatical structures and meaning of the English language.

The methodology will be framed under the Task-Based Approach throughout the virtual sessions of the current semester. Flipped learning will be oriented for English 1. As a result, meaningful learning will be achieved autonomously according to the principles of understanding, organizing, analyzing, and using knowledge within the teaching-learning processes of a foreign language.

Throughout the course, students will apply and enhance their language skills through different activities and situations. In addition, students will practice, evaluate, and create material relevant to their fields of study as a way to improve their understanding and use of the specialized language. Students will build up their reading and listening comprehension skills, as well as their written and spoken production in an autonomous manner.

The role of the teacher will be to guide students through the learning process, keeping their needs, interests and capabilities in mind. Teachers and students will establish learning goals and strategies to encourage and motivate autonomous learning. Collaborative work should be applied throughout the course while being in multimedia and technology-mediated settings.