Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 2-Practical Activity 1

1. General Description of the Course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

Academic Unit
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación disciplinar
Course Name Phonetics and Phonology
Course Code 551017
Course Type Metodológico Retake Yes ☐ No ☒
Exam
Number of Credits 2

2. Description of the Activity

Type of Number of
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☒ 2
Activity: Weeks
Evaluation Initial
☒ Intermediate ☒ Final ☒
Moment: Unit 1
Environment to Submit the
Total Score of the Activity:
Activity: Monitoring and Evaluation
25
Environment
Starting Date of the Activity: Deadline of the Activity:
September 6, 2019 September 22, 2019
Competences to Develop:
GENERAL COMPETENCES:
• To recognize and describe the specific linguistic terms found in
phonetics and phonology
• To identify the parts of the vocal tract and their roles in speech
production.
• To transcribe English and non-English speech using the
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
• To identify the distinctive features of the speech sounds
• To describe the role of phonology in language learning
• To describe basic phonological rules in English in their context
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE COMPETENCES:
• Linguistic competence: To be able to handle the lexical,
 phonological and syntactical knowledge and skills of the
language system according to the B2 level
• Sociolinguistic competence: To have the ability to manage the
sociocultural conditions of language use (rules of politeness,
norms governing relations between generations, sexes, classes
and social groups, etc)
• Pragmatic competence: To be able to use functionally the
linguistic resources for the production of speech acts, written
production, cohesion and coherence
Topics to Develop:
 Phonetic Symbols: Consonants
 Phonetic Symbols: Vowels
Steps, Phase or Stage of the Learning Strategy to Develop
Step 1. Go to the web page
Step 2. Play the games
Step 3. Put together all the screenshots
Activities to Develop

Step 1: Go to the web page

http://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_games.html

Step 2: Play at least 10 games on the web page. Take a screenshot for
every game you play.
Step 3: Put together all screenshots on a PDF file as evidence of the
task.

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Activity
Individual:
A PDF file must be uploaded by each student in the
Products Evaluation and Monitoring Environment as a final product.
to be The PDF file must include:
Submitted - A front page (with title, full name, ID number,
by course name, group number, name of the
Students university, name of the program, city and date)
- Screenshots of each one of the played games
- References APA Style
 Collaborative:
N/APaso 1: ve a la página web
http://www.familylearning.org.uk/phonics_g
ames.html

Paso 2: Juega al menos 10 juegos en la página

web. Tome una captura de pantalla para cada
juego que juegue.
Paso 3: reúna todas las capturas de pantalla
en un archivo PDF como evidencia de la tarea.
Individual:
Cada estudiante debe cargar un archivo PDF
en el entorno de evaluación y monitoreo como
producto final. El archivo PDF debe incluir:
- Una página principal (con título, nombre
completo, número de identificación, nombre
del curso, número de grupo, nombre de la
universidad, nombre del programa, ciudad y
fecha)
- Capturas de pantalla de cada uno de los
juegos jugados.
- Referencias APA Style

3. General Guidelines for the Collaborative Work

Collaborative learning is a strategy that allows

students to work together in order to achieve a
common goal. Accordingly, the collaborative work
proposed for the course is based on a structured
and planned process that includes individual and
Planning of group activities, as well as interaction and
Activities for the socialization in the virtual classroom.
Development of 1. Explore the syllabus of the course.
Collaborative 2. Make several readings of the activity guide and
Work the evaluation rubric for each of the units of
individual and collaborative work.
3. All the activities that are carried out for the
development of the activity should be reflected
within the course through the different media and
especially in the forum of each activity, since the
 interaction; if they work by Skype or other means
they should evidence it in the forum with
screenshots.
4. Be in constant communication with the
colleagues and tutor during the development of
activities.
5. In case of any concern, ask the tutor or the
colleagues with time, using the various
communication channels arranged in the course.
6. Enter the contributions with time for the
Timely feedback from peers and tutor.
7. Establish a schedule of activities within each
forum and a table of roles and functions for meet
during the development of each activity.
Different roles are proposed within the
collaborative environment, which allow an
appropriate space for academic growth and
effective interaction that promotes learning and
interpersonal relationships. Every student will
take up one of these roles for the development of
the course assignments and can only be changed
if decided by the group members.
Facilitator: Makes sure that every voice is heard
and focuses work around the learning task.
Roles to Be Provides leadership and direction for the group
Performed by the and suggests solutions to team problems.
Student in the Recorder: Keeps a public record of the team's
Collaborative ideas and progress. Checks to be sure that ideas
Group are clear and accurate.
Time keeper: Encourages the group to stay on
task. Announces when time is halfway through
and when time is nearly up.
Planner: States an action for the completion of
the task at hand according to the instructions and
course agenda.
Task monitor: Looks for supplies or requests
help from the teacher when group members
agree that they do not have the resources to
solve the problem.
Roles and Duties Compiler: Puts together the final product and
for the Submission includes the work done only by those who
of Products by participated on time. Informs the student in
Students charge of alerts about people who did not
participate and will not be included in the final
product.
Reviser/Editor: Makes sure the written work
follows all the criteria established in the activity
guide.
Evaluator: Evaluates the final document to
ensure it follows the evaluation criteria of the
rubric and informs the student in charge of alerts
about any changes that need to be made before
delivering the product.
Deliveries: Student in charge of informing about
the dates set for presenting each task and
delivering the final product according to the
course agenda. Also informs other students that
the final product has been sent.
Alerts: Informs group participants about any
news in the work being done and reports the
delivery of the final product to the course tutor.
All references considered for this activity have to
References
be cited using APA Style
Students must be aware of the risks and
penalties in case of plagiarism.

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
Plagiarism Policy
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 that the student will face
are:

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.

To learn how to properly cite all your tasks, see

the following:
BibMe. (n.d.). APA Citation Guide. Retrieved from
http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/apa/

4. Evaluation Rubric

Evaluation Rubric
Task 2 – Practical Activity 1
Activity Collaborative
Individual Activity x
type: Activity
Evaluation
Initial Intermediate x Final
moment
Evaluated Performance levels of the individual activity
Score
items High score Average score Low score
The student The student
developed the developed the
The student did
exercises exercises
not develop the
according to according to
exercises
instructions and instructions, but
Evidence according to
presented there’s no 25 points
instruction or
evidence of such evidence of such
there is no
on the on the
evidence.
corresponding corresponding
link. link.
(up to 25 points) (up to 12 points) (up to 0 points)
Final score 25