Lingua inglese i (K02)

Assessment is exam-based. Prior to sitting the final examination, students will have successfully completed a written and an oral language skills test. It is necessary to pass the written language test to be able to sit the oral language test. Both tests must be completed before you sit the oral exam with the course subject professor. Written language testing typically takes place at the beginning of each exam period (May, September, January).

Language skills written test
This written test is composed of two parts
1. Use of English: This part tests students' competences in grammar and vocabulary (C1 plus level, advanced Business English vocabulary). Tasks may include cloze tests, sentence transformations, multiple choice gapfills etc. Students are given 45 minutes to complete the tasks. No dictionaries are allowed. The test may be administered electronically.
2. The second part of the language skills written test consists of a text writing task. The task involves writing a text of professional quality in one of the genres analysed during the course (press release, fundraising letter, financial report, internal report etc.). Students have 90 minutes to complete the task and are expected to write between 300 and 400 words. Monolingual dictionaries are allowed.

Language skills oral test
The language skills oral test consists of a simulated job interview. Students will be asked to play the role of either the interviewer or the interviewee and will have to demonstrate the ability to engage in challenging professional interactions. Assessment will be based on command of the language and will evaluate structure and vocabulary, adequacy of pronunciation and intonation patterns, fluency, authenticity/idiomaticity, and strategic effectiveness (C1 plus level). Students may obtain a mark for this part of the assessment during language practice sessions (interim assessment). Students who have not been assessed during language practice sessions will have to take the language skills oral test on the same day as they sit the oral exam with the course subject professor.

Only students who have successfully passed both the written and the oral language skills tests will be able to sit the final exam.

Final exam
The final exam will consist in an oral exam with the course subject professors, who will award the final mark. Students will have to prove they have mastered the concepts covered during the course and can talk about them in an academically appropriate manner. They must be prepared to discuss theoretical principles and apply them to sample texts belonging to one or more of the genres analysed during the course. To this end, they will also be required to prepare a short project consisting of an in-depth analysis of a text of their choice (belonging to one of the genres discussed in class or to another genre), which they will discuss with the examiner during the final exam. Please note that the project is only one part of the final exam, which will cover the contents of the entire syllabus.
Part of the syllabus may be assessed through computer-based testing in the course of the year. Interim tests will take place at the end of units 1 and 2. Marks obtained in the interim tests will go towards the formulation of the final mark. Students who have successfully taken the interim tests during the academic year will be exempt from the corresponding parts of the final exam.