UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGÓGICA Y TECNOLÓGICA DE COLOMBIA

FACULTAD SECCIONAL SOGAMOSO

INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE INSTITUTE

2 Level: Language in use 2

Semester: 2020-1

Teacher: Erika Alexandra Prieto Wilches

SYLLABUS

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

This workshop mainly seeks to consolidate the process of language acquisition

through a series of language-in-action activities. Also, the workshop looks for making
learners connect communicative skills with their study disciplines in order to make
sense of language main purposes. Additionally, students’ anxiety levels will be
hopefully reduced so as to gain confidence to engage in future language academic
demands.

OBJECTIVE

The student will be able to establish a relationship between the L2 and his/her major
and use the foreign language as a means to engage him/herself in metacognitive
processes in which he/she will take his/her own decisions and reflect upon social
issues and daily life situations.

STUDENTS' OUTCOMES

- By making use of future structures, the student is able to share future plans in
terms of professional/personal life, predictions about life in the future or world
situations.
- The student shares life experiences and also interacts with others expressing
regrets, desires or situations that influenced their major choice.
- The student makes predictions, talks about hypothetical situations and their
possible results, can express regrets and whishes concerning their
professional and personal life.
CONTENTS

TOPIC LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES ASSESSMENT

STRUCTURE

Travel and Be going to/ Will -preparing a trip

transport. Cities
and houses. Present -Selling -students’ active
Sports and continuous for (purchasing) a participation and
equipment, future events house. Discussing commitment will be
advantages & part of a
Money and Present perfect disadvantages permanent
banking (location, price, assessment.
Present perfect
mortgage, loans,
continuous -group skills
etc)
development will
-Tourism industry: be stimulated and
is Colombia ready? appreciated.

- Debate: is soccer -personal tutorials,

better than cycling? when necessary,
will be carried out.
-sport description
and rules. -particular
learners’ needs will
-local sports: be dealt with
culture (teachers’
subalternization? language
supporting
Working life. Past perfect -working conditions workshops).
simple in Colombia.
(official statistics,
- ING uses people’s
Social problems
perception, no-
Culture Tag questions
formal employment)

- work options for

young
professionals

-public vs. private

work offer

Entrepreneurs:
 work problem
solution? (the
orange economy)

1st term report

Nations, States Conditionals: zero, -Defining

and politics. first, second and government, nation
third and state.
-students’ active
Passive voice -the role of politics
Everyday participation and
in nation
technology Reported speech commitment will be
organization (the
part of a
three powers in
Everyday permanent
Colombia) (political
inventions assessment.
violence: an
endless issue in -group skills
Colombia) development will
be stimulated and
-approaching
Art, theatre and appreciated.
politics and
music education: is it -personal tutorials,
necessary? when necessary,
will be carried out.
-Exploring issues
on technology and -particular
inventions learners’ needs will
(application on be dealt with
learning, are (teachers’
Colombian students language
ready? Survey supporting
practice workshops).
-Why does the
Colombian
curriculum discard
arts? (Are art
manifestations
(theater, music,
sculpture, etc.)
necessary?)
 -Why do people
prefer foreign music
to local music?
Survey and debate.
Poster show-off

Final term report

METHODOLOGY

An active and critical approach will guide the learning process to ensure students’
responsibility, engagement and commitment in achieving proposed learning goals.
Group learning activities will be stimulated as well as active language use for doing
and presenting will be encouraged.

EVALUATION

According to Liquanti (2012): ""formative assessment as a process assists students

in achieving intended instructional outcomes. There is also a growing consensus that
formative assessment plays a key role in developing deeper learning of cognitive,
interpersonal, and intrapersonal knowledge and ready standards"" (n.p)."