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Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric - Unit 1 - Task 1 - Reflecting Upon English Language Awareness

This document provides guidance for an activity in an English conversation course. It outlines 5 steps for the activity: 1) course recognition, 2) reflection on English language awareness, 3) recording a video, 4) submission, and 5) preparation for future mandatory encounters. Students are asked to answer questions about the course, reflect on their language learning experience and goals, and submit a video and written work. The document provides evaluation criteria for assessing students' identification of the course nature and dynamics, and their reflection on language awareness. Academic integrity policies are also outlined.

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Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric - Unit 1 - Task 1 - Reflecting Upon English Language Awareness

This document provides guidance for an activity in an English conversation course. It outlines 5 steps for the activity: 1) course recognition, 2) reflection on English language awareness, 3) recording a video, 4) submission, and 5) preparation for future mandatory encounters. Students are asked to answer questions about the course, reflect on their language learning experience and goals, and submit a video and written work. The document provides evaluation criteria for assessing students' identification of the course nature and dynamics, and their reflection on language awareness. Academic integrity policies are also outlined.

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Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación


Course: English VII: English Conversation
Code: 518012

Activity guide and evaluation rubric - Task 1 - Reflecting upon English


language awareness

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Individual


Evaluation moment: Initial
Highest score of the activity: 25 points
The activity starts on: Thursday, The activity ends on: Wednesday,
February 8, 2024 February 21, 2024
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

Learning Outcome 1: demonstrate oral skills to express fluently and spontaneously


about different cultural subjects for social or academic purposes.

The activity consists of:

Step 1 – Course Recognition


Start by browsing the whole course to be aware of the particular features it has
regarding any other course from the BA program. Be sure to check the News forum
and the course internal mail every time you get in English VII: English Conversation
course. Your student institutional email ([email protected]) must be
working as well because you will get updates from the course director through these
means.

Check the course presentation, agenda, rules and conditions, syllabus, contents, and
activity guides, and evaluation rubrics in the Learning environment. Then, introduce
yourself in the forum and answer the following questions:

1. What is the purpose of the course?


2. How many learning outcomes can you find in the syllabus?
3. What are synchronic interaction activities? (Definition)
4. How many activities does the course have?

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5. Which activities in the course imply real-time interaction? (Identify only that
type of activity: synchronic interaction).
6. Summarize with your own words the course rules and conditions
7. Is your institutional email working properly?

Special Notice: If your institutional email is not working, use the following
manual to restore the password:
https://informacion.unad.edu.co/images/Manual_Usuario_Office365_Estudiantes.pdf
If even so, you do not have access to your institutional email, send a message
to [email protected], including your ID in the message, and ask
them to restore your student email.

Step 2 – Reflection on English language awareness


In the Contents and bibliographical references section, go over Unit 1 to check the
following reference:
Leaver, B., Ehrman, M., & Shekhtman, B. (2005). Planning foreign-language study.
In Achieving Success in Second Language Acquisition (pp. 3-37). Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Then, share in the forum a reflection that includes the following aspects:

1. Have you got an English language level certification? If not, what do you
consider your level to be at present?
2. How did you get to the level you have now?
3. Why are you studying English as a foreign language?
4. How is studying a language as an adult different from studying it as a child?
5. How long should you study a foreign language?
6. How can you make language learning a part of your life in the future?
7. How can you organize lifelong language learning?

Step 3 – Shoot a video


Record a video presenting the answers to the questions from Step 1 and your
reflections from Step 2. Start the video with your self-introduction. You can use slides
as a support to your video if you wish, but it is mandatory for you to be on camera.
Be sure your video has a high-quality sound and that it lasts at least four minutes.
Share the public link to your video in the forum.

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Step 4 – Submission
Submit an individual PDF to the Evaluation environment including a cover page, the
public link to your video, your self-introduction, the answers from Step 1, the
reflections from Step 2, and references.

Step 5 – About Task 2 - Partaking in seven weekly mandatory encounters


You must be attentive to the messages that the course director will send you through
the course internal mail and institutional email regarding the subscription, material,
and weekly mandatory participation in Task 2. According to your subscription, you
will be meeting once a week for seven weeks with the same group of students to
discuss different topics. Every Friday or Saturday, you will get from the course
director a message with the material to prepare for the meeting of the following
week. The material can be an article, a file, or a video. The idea is that you prepare
the topic beforehand so that you can have an excellent performance during the
discussion in the corresponding session. Task 2 is going to be the first
synchronic activity of the course.

SPECIAL NOTICE ABOUT FUTURE SYNCHRONIC ACTIVITIES:


Be sure to keep an eye out for the subscriptions for TASK 3, TASK 4, and TASK 6. As
soon as the course director sends you the information to book your spot for each of
those activities, you will need to subscribe to them promptly. Do not wait until the
deadline to subscribe, or else you will miss your chance to participate, which may
bring as a consequence the failure of the course.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:


- Check the course agenda to be aware of the synchronic activities this course
implies.
- Go over the course rules and conditions to double-check your commitment to
subscribe and participate in the synchronic activities of the course accordingly.
- Be attentive to the informative web conference schedule to ensure your
attendance.

In the Learning Environment, you must:


- Read thoroughly the course syllabus to understand the dynamics and nature of the
English VII: English Conversation course, which is atypical from other courses due
to real-time interaction and overlapping in several activities.
- Interact in the forum with peers to check their contributions and provide and get
meaningful feedback.

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In the Evaluation Environment, you must:
- Submit your individual outcome consisting of a PDF and check your score and
feedback afterward.

Evidence of individual work:


The individual evidence to be submitted is:

PDF document with your self-introduction, the public link to the video, the required
answers and reflections about the course recognition and language awareness, and
references.

Evidence of collaborative work:


No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidence to Submit

For Individual evidence, consider the following:


The PDF file to be submitted to the Evaluation Environment must include a cover
page, the public link to your video, your self-introduction, the answers to the
questions from Step 1, the reflections from Step 2, and references.
Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must
comply with APA style.
In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic plagiarism.
You can review your written products using the Turnitin tool found in the virtual
campus.

Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the actions that infringe the academic order,
among others, are the following: paragraph e) Plagiarism is to present as your own
work all or part of a written report, task or document of invention carried out by
another person. It also implies the use of citations or lack of references, or it
includes citations where there is no match between these and the reference and
paragraph f) To reproduce, or copy for profit, educational resources or results of
research products, which have rights reserved for the University. (Acuerdo 029 - 13
de diciembre de 2013, artículo 99)

The academic penalties students will face are:


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a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in the academic work or evaluation, the
score obtained will be zero (0.0) without any disciplinary measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic work of any nature, the score obtained
will be zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures being derived.

3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Individual


Evaluation moment: Initial
The highest score in this activity is 25 points
First evaluation High level: The course recognition was performed through the
criterion: correct answers to the six questions from Step 1.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
Identify the nature and 6 points
and dynamics of the
course Average level: The six questions for the course recognition
from Step 1 were partially answered or not correctly addressed.
This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
represents 6 and 4 points
points of the total
of 25 points of Low level: The six questions regarding the course recognition
the activity. set in Step 1 were not answered or just a couple of them.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 2 points
Second evaluation High level: The reflection about language awareness is
criterion: accurate in terms of content and relevance and includes the
seven required aspects from Step 2.
Reflect upon If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
language awareness and 6 points

This criterion Average level: The reflection about language awareness


represents 6 partially includes the seven required aspects from Step 2 or it is
points of the total not deep enough.
of 25 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
the activity. and 4 points

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Low level: The reflection about language awareness regarding
the aspects from Step 2 is not presented or it is almost null.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 2 points
Third evaluation High level: The link to the video is public, it lasts minimum 4
criterion: minutes, the student is on camera, the content is complete
according to requirements, and it is high-quality regarding sound
Shoot a video with and presentation.
the required content If your work is at this level, you can get between 5 points
and structure and 6 points

This criterion Average level: The video has issues regarding access, length,
represents 6 student visibility on camera, required content, and/or the quality
points of the total is poor regarding sound, presentation, etc.
of 25 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 1 point
the activity. and 2 points

Low level: The video is not included in the final document.


If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 2 points
Fourth evaluation High level: Pronunciation is clear, speech is effortless and
criterion: smooth, and sentence structure and tenses are accurate.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
Demonstrate and 7 points
language accuracy
Average level: There are some issues regarding pronunciation,
This criterion fluency, sentence structure, and tenses.
represents 7 If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
points of the total and 5 points
of 25 points of
the activity. Low level: There are several issues regarding pronunciation,
fluency, and/or grammar.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 3 point

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