The subject "Tercera lengua I: Lengua catalana" focuses on learning the Catalan language from a communicative approach, while not neglecting essential morphosyntactic aspects necessary for the acquisition of basic oral and written competencies that will allow students to express themselves correctly in Catalan in social communication situations typical of everyday life.



CONTEXTUALIZATION:

This optional subject, offered in the third and fourth years, is available in English Studies, Philology, Basque Studies, and Translation and Interpretation degrees. In this course, students will have the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to master oral and written competencies in Catalan aligned with level A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

In this subject, we aim to provide students with an initial introduction to the Catalan language and its culture from a completely communicative approach. This approach allows students to develop basic comprehension and communication skills such as vowel system and phonetic peculiarities, accentuation rules, or basic grammar and vocabulary concepts.



Upon completion of the course, students are expected to have achieved the required level for an A2 language proficiency (CEFR) in the following detailed areas:



1. Adaptation to the communicative situation: Students should be able to identify the appropriate response to an intervention or a communicative situation in everyday life.



2. Listening comprehension: Students should be able to understand the overall meaning and main information of short oral texts dealing with everyday life topics.



3. Reading comprehension: Students should be able to understand the general meaning and main ideas of short written texts that are not overly complex.



4. Oral expression: Students should be able to participate in a conversation and respond to different everyday communicative situations.

The content of the subject is divided into 4 thematic units, and according to the semantic field worked on in each one, aspects of grammar, syntax, morphology, and culture related to the leitmotiv will be addressed:



1. SELF-PRESENTATION

- Present indicative tense of the verbs "ser," "dir-se," "tenir," "viure," and "estudiar"

- Hobbies

- Cardinal numbers

- Self-introduction

(oral conversational text)





2. DESCRIPTION OF A CHARACTER

- Present indicative tense: regular and irregular conjugation

- Occupations, parts of the human body, clothing

- Nominal morphology: noun and gender inflection, derivation, suffixes; addition connectors

- Physical description of a character

(descriptive text)





3. ROUTINE

- Imperfect indicative tense, "agradar" verb and synonyms

- Parts of the day, days of the week, months, and seasons; verbs for daily actions; common lexicon

- Telling time, adverbs and frequency expressions, clitic pronouns (weak object pronouns), uncountable quantifiers, adversative connectors

- Describing past routine compared to the present (descriptive text + oral reading)





4. HOME AND CITY

- Periphrastic indicative tense, imperative and obligation periphrases (for giving directions)

- Rooms of a house, common lexicon for rooms, living room, etc.; city vocabulary

- Local and directional markers, interrogative pronouns, causal connectors, comparative structures

- Writing a journalistic chronicle based on an event

(descriptive text + oral reading)

La metodología llevada a cabo en esta asignatura tiene un enfoque esencialmente comunicativo. Con este propósito, se intenta reducir al máximo posible el tiempo de explicación magistral por parte del docente, siendo sustituido por indicaciones teóricas en presentaciones PowerPoint, o en material de apoyo entregado al alumnado.



Así pues, la mayor parte de la duración de las sesiones se dedicará a la realización de actividades orales en grupo y a la resolución de dudas.



Además de las sesiones ordinarias, se llevarán a cabo actividades complementarias con el objetivo de acercar y divulgar la cultura en catalán entre el alumnado, creando un vínculo más allá de lo estrictamente académico.

• Continuous Assessment System
• Final Assessment System
• Tools and qualification percentages:
  • Written test to be taken (%): 40
  • Oral defense (%): 10
  • Realization of Practical Work (exercises, cases or problems) (%): 50

Evaluation System



Continuous Assessment (to opt for this system, the student must not have more than 30% of sessions with unexcused absences)

The syllabus is divided into four units, each closing with the submission of an assessable assignment which can be: individual or group, written or oral.

In addition to this final assignment, Thematic Units 2 and 4 also have an intermediate assignment that will also be assessable.

These submissions will be evaluated based on the sections included in each of the evaluation rubrics that students will have at their disposal at the beginning of each thematic unit.



The arithmetic average resulting from the grades of these submissions will account for 50% of the course grade.



Final Assessment

For students who have opted for the continuous assessment system, the final test of the course, composed of a written part and an oral part, will account for the remaining 50% of the course grade.

If the student has exceeded the number of unexcused absences or has opted for the final assessment system, the grade of this test will account for 100% of the course grade.



VERY IMPORTANT:

Any test, exercise, or assignment of any assessment modality (continuous or final) and any call (ordinary or extraordinary) will be considered FAILED if any FRAUDULENT ACTION (such as copying or plagiarism) is observed. Academic fraud is understood as dishonest and unethical practice, from copying in an exam or written test to appropriation of texts and infringement of copyright (plagiarism and/or cyberplagiarism), identity impersonation, or the buying and selling of academic work.



ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT IF IT MUST BE DONE REMOTELY:

Regardless of whether they have participated in the continuous assessment system or not, students have the right to be assessed through the final assessment system. To do this, the student who wishes to must submit a written request to the professor in charge of the course to withdraw from the continuous assessment within 9 weeks from the start of the semester.

The extraordinary call is only for students who have not passed the course in the ordinary call, either because:

the final average grade is less than 5

they did not attend the final test during the ordinary period



In any case, the student who has to take the extraordinary call must contact the teacher to agree on the terms and conditions to pass the course.

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Basic bibliography

Vilagrasa Grandia, Albert (2020). A punt. Curs de català. Llibre d'exercicis, 3. Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat

Vilagrasa Grandia, Albert (2020). A punt. Curs de català. Llibre de l'alumne, 3. Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat



Optional

Mas, Marta; Vilagrasa i Grandia, Albert; et al. Veus 2: curs comunicatiu de català: enfocament per tasques. Llibre de l'alumne

Mas, Marta; Vilagrasa i Grandia, Albert; et al. Veus 2: curs comunicatiu de català: enfocament per tasques. Llibre d’exercicis

In-depth bibliography

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Journals

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