%0 Journal Article 
%A Aguado, Pilar
%A Sánchez, Purificación
%A Vilar, Mar
%T Teaching a Whole English Language Course to First Year Undergraduate Students
%D 2001
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/970
%X Core English language is probably the most important subject in English Studies. 
Consequently, the design and implementation of the syllabus has to be carefuUy prepared. 
However, we have very tight timetabling, many students, and a very heterogeneous level as 
far as their command of the language is concerned. This paper aims to determine language 
áreas which present difficulties for students in their first year of English Studies according 
to the results obtained in the final exams of June 2000 and June 2001. After a statistical 
recount we have determined that the questions related to the use of the English past tense 
and comparing and contrasting structures are those in which our students registered the 
highest rates of failure. We propose the consolidation of the aforementioned áreas through 
overexploitation of the reading and the writing activities proposed in the book. As neither 
the syllabus ñor the timing of the lectures can be changed, we have considered that taking 
full advantage of the textbook could benefit the students.

%K Humanidades
%K Humanities
%K Filología hispánica
%K Spanish philology
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala