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1. INFORMACIÓN BÁSICA
1.1. Facultad Educación y Ciencias Humanas 1.2. Licenciatura en Lenguas Extranjeras
Programa con Énfasis en inglés.
1.3. Área Language Acquisition 1.4. Curso Advanced Grammar
1.5. Código 212333 1.6. 4
Créditos
1.6.1. HDD 4 1.6.2. HTI 4 Año de actualización 2019

2. JUSTIFICACIÓN
This course aims to increase students’ awareness and comprehend the form, meaning, and use of English
grammar structures at an advanced level, in order to produce spoken and written language correctly. In
this course, students will understand how language works in contexts through a systemic functional
approach to language.

3. PROPÓSITOS DE FORMACIÓN
This course provides students with learning opportunities to acquire and develop communicative basic
skills. On completion of the course, teacher candidates will demonstrate the B2 level of language
accuracy of the Common European Framework.

4. COMPETENCIAS ESPECÍFICAS Y TRANSVERSALES

By the end of this course students will be able to:
● demonstrate and understand the use and the function of upper-intermediate grammar structures
for communicative purposes.
● demonstrate the ability to use and explain specific language structures related to grammar when
writing short pieces of texts.
● recognize and identify the parts of a text and language features.
● show respect and tolerance towards individual differences, classmates´ opinions, and
contributions in the language classroom facilitating collaborative work.
● value and take responsibility and commitment to tasks and activities.
● use technology as a fundamental tool for the development of the four language skills.

5. LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of the course, students will:
● describe common life situations and experiences using the grammar structures covered
appropriately in oral and written ways.
● narrate experiences, anecdotes, and biographies, etc. using appropriate tenses in both oral and
written ways.
● comprehend complex texts such as news reports and articles with inversions, negative adverbials,
and dangling phrases.

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● describe common situations in everyday life based on hypothetical, factual, contra factual
conditionals.
● express coherent ideas in written texts such as letters, articles, reports, and news using
appropriate structures, verb agreement, connectors, and articles.
● write narrative and expository texts by using appropriate linking words, tenses, and vocabulary.
● identify and classify phrases in short passages expressing ability, request, obligation, suggestion,
criticism necessity, deduction, and possibility.
● use hypothetical patterns to talk about real and unreal situations.
● use passive forms and reported speech in speaking and writing.

6. COURSE CONTENT
● Tenses review.
● Adjectives and Adverbs (Different types)
● Passives
● Conditionals and mixed conditionals
● Perfect and Past modals
● Infinitives and gerunds. (Reporting verbs)
● Quantifiers and determiners.
● Had better- would rather/prefer.
● Connectors and clauses.
● Inversions / Ellipsis and referencing.
● Reduced adverbial phrases and dangling phrases

7. ESTRATEGIAS METODOLÓGICAS
Teachers will design their lessons based on the three-phase learning cycle (exploratory,
developmental, and expansion). Students will be given learner-centered instruction and a lot of
practice and activities that will help students apply words they learned in a wide variety of contexts.
High-interest topics will be used to integrate grammar and communicative skills through group work
and individual activities.

8. ACTIVIDADES Y PRÁCTICAS
Lessons will combine teacher presentations, students’ pre-session readings and assignments, and
various formats of class discussion. Particularly, students will develop their research and research
writing skills at the time that they make decisions concerning their own research projects. Email
exchanges and face-to-face tutoring sessions will be encouraged as a means of supporting students’
achievements of the course goals.

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9. CRITERIOS DE EVALUACIÓN PARA EL DESARROLLO DE COMPETENCIAS

The students’ progress will be evidenced throughout this course, they will demonstrate what they have
learned through different activities that will be assessed with different instruments. Students will be
evaluated through presentations, video news forecasts, oral and written texts, quizzes, and exams.
Formal
● Checklist, tasks, participation, students´ progress, oral exams
● Formal partial exams and quizzes.
● Formal presentations
● Summaries integrated with short videos
Informal
● Observational records of students ´learning

10. BIBLIOGRAFÍA
Brown. H Douglas. (2000). Teaching by Principles. An interactive approach to language pedagogy. 2 nd
edition. Longman.

Decapua, A. (2017). Grammar for teachers. A guide to American English for native and non-native
speakers. Springer.

Schrampfer, B. (2003). Fundamentals of English Grammar. Third Edition. Longman.

Murphy, R. (2012). Advanced English Grammar in Use. Cambridge. 4th edition. Cambridge University
Press.

Yule, G. (2006). Oxford Practice Grammar.Oxford: oxford university press.

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