Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

School or Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

Academic Unit
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación disciplinar
Course Name First and Second Language Acquisition and
learning
Course Code 551018
Course Type Methodological Retake yes ☐ No ☒
exam
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of
Individual x Collaborative of 2
activity:
weeks
Evaluation
Initial ☐ Intermediate Final x
moment:
Environment for the delivery of
Total score of the activity:
the activity: Monitoring and
125
evaluation environment
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity:
activity: 29/11/2019 12/12/2019
Competence to develop:
To apply the concepts learned during the course and analyze how to
develop the competencies intrinsic in the learning and teaching
process of first and second language.
Topics to develop:
To develop an activity about all the Units in the course
Step, phase or stage of the learning strategy to develop

Watch the video

Write a reflection
Participate in the forum
Discuss with your classmates in the forum about the established
topics.
Oral discussion
Create a blog

Activities to develop

FINAL EVALUATION
TASK 1: ESSAY WRITING

Watch the video information related to language acquisition, five

hypotheses and comprehensible input based on Stephen Krashen’s
work:

a. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr64l4FjvBQ
b. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jobpF4c-1NI

c. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg1ZC5rbc5Y
For this task, you are going to prepare a reflection. Keep in mind that
an effective essay should be 400 – 500 words. It has to include an
introduction, a body and a conclusion.

Please make sure to read the evaluation rubric to learn how you will
be evaluated in this task. You are going to develop a paper in which
you select and discuss one of the following topics:

a. The main concepts related to language acquisition and learning.

b. The definition of “language acquisition device” and its relation

with first language learning.

c. The impact of Krashen’s hypotheses in the process of language

teaching and learning.

d. The difference between approach and method for language

teaching.

e. The relevance of including activities that promote learning styles

to the process of language learning.

Your reflection has to provide clear examples and detailed information

about the thesis you are presenting as your argument. You have to
write four paragraphs divided in an introduction, two body paragraphs
and a conclusion.

Write your reflection and post it in the discussion topic (Final course
project) that your teacher has prepared for you in the forum available
in the collaborative environment. The document should be sent as a
word file so that your tutor and partners can make any corrections or
suggestions to your work. This task should be done no later than
December 5th, so that you can receive feedback from your partners
and tutor.

TASK 2: ORAL DISCUSSION

Choose one of your classmates’ essays and make an audio review of

his/her contributions. The review should include your opinion about
his/her work expressing your agreement or disagreement with his/her
point of view in a polite manner.

Make any necessary adjustments or corrections to your contributions

according to the comments and feedback received about your work.

Please record your audios using the following online voice recorder to
avoid problems in size, quality and length of your audio files. Save
your file, then upload it to your Google Drive and share the link of
your audio recording in the activity forum.

https://online-voice-recorder.com/
Post the link of your audio file in the forum. This link must be included
in the final product for this activity.

Environments
for the Knowledge settling, collaborative settling and
development evaluation & assessment settling.
of the activity
Products to Individual:
deliver by the
student
Participation in the collaborative environment by
sharing argumentative reflection in a Word file. Write
about 400 – 500 words. Inform in the forum the
topic you choose for developing your reflections so
that no topics are repeated among students.

Read your partners’ participations and comment their

contributions. You should consider possible
corrections regarding structure, vocabulary and
content. Keep in mind your suggestions or
corrections must be well based and show respect for
your partners’ ideas and intellectual work.

Once you have received appropriate feedback,

rewrite your reflection and share the revised version
of your work in the forum. The student in charge of
alerts must inform participants about any changes
that need to be made in the tasks.

Create a blog with your individual information,

reflection, comments and links of the recordings.
Each student must prepare and send to the forum a
Word document that includes the following
information:

a. Cover page (name and last name of the

student, course info, tutor name, date).
b. Blog link
d. References (APA style).

Collaborative:

None
 General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for
the
development N/A
of
collaborative
work
Roles to
perform by
the student
N/A
in the
collaborative
group
Roles and
duties for
the delivery N/A
of products
by students
Use of All references considered for this activity have to be
references cited using APA Style
Plagiarism In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
policy 99, the mistakes that infringe upon the academic
order, among others, are the following: paragraph e)
“To plagiarize is to present as your own work the
whole or part of a writing, report, task or document of
invention performed by another person. It also implies
the use of cites or lack of references, or includes cites
where there is no coincidence between them and the
reference” and paragraph f)”To reproduce, or copy for
 profit, educational resources or results of research
products, which have intellectual rights reserved for
the University”.

The academic punishments that the student will face

are:
a) In case of academic fraud proved in the
academic work or evaluation, the score achieved will
be zero (0.0) without leading to disciplinary measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the academic
work of any nature, the score achieved will be zero
(0.0), without leading to disciplinary measures.

To know how the documents must be cited, check the

following document:
Centro de Escritura Javeriano ( ) Normas APA. Sexta
edición. Taken from
http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=

4. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation rubric
Individual Collaborative
Activity type: ☒ ☐
Activity Activity
Moment of the
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☐ Final ☒
evaluation
 Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity Score
Aspects High score Media score Low score
The reflection
The reflection
develops a clear The reflection
introduces a thesis
thesis statement does not offer a
statement, but the
and all ideas are thesis statement
Task 1: supporting ideas
correctly or does not
Argumentati are not well
intertwined to support it. The 40
on of the connected. The
show the student does not points
paper student does not
student’s position validate his/her
manage to validate
regarding the point.
his/her point.
topic at hand.
(up to 40
(up to 20 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The reflection The reflection The reflection
clearly introduces introduces the does not
and explains the chosen topic, but completely cover
Task 1: chosen topic and the issue is not the chosen topic.
30
Topic the content is well explained, or it The student fails
points
development clear to the is not clear to the to present the
reader. reader. course contents.
(up to 30
(up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The reflection
The reflection
introduces a
does not have a
strong structure
complete
with an The reflection
structure: an
Task 1: introduction contains some of
introductory
Overall including a solid the paragraphs,
paragraph with a 10
structure of thesis statement, but these are not
thesis statement, points
the two body clearly defined.
two body
reflection paragraphs and a
paragraphs and a
well-defined
conclusion.
conclusion.
(up to 10
(up to 5 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
Assessed Performance levels of the collaborative activity Score
 High score Media score Low score
The group
correctly
The group
developed the
participated in the
oral discussion
oral discussion but The group did
and included the
not all participants not make the
information of all
posted their work audio comments.
Task 2: Oral participants with 25
and made audio The audio is not
discussion audio comments. points
comments. understandable.
The audio is
The audio is
understandable
understandable.
and has good
pronunciation.
(up to 25
(up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
The students did a The students did
The students
good job following not follow the
successfully
the instructions, instructions to
followed the
Content of the but the document complete the
activity
blog and does not include all assignment and 20
instructions and
group suggested items, there was poor points
interaction is
interaction group interaction is interaction. No
successful.
OK. final product sent.
(up to 20
(up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
Final Score 125