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Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 1-Initial Activity

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:
August 26th 2020 September 8th 2020
Competences to Develop:
-The student understands, expresses and interprets thoughts orally as
written, in situations that require the use of the foreign language to
facilitate and ensure assertive interaction and communication.

-The student uses the skills acquired within the course to improve
his/her own pronunciation, in order to communicate in real life
situations.

-The student recognizes the language as a cultural manifestation

associated with the own practices of different human groups, as well
as their differentiating factors
such as the articulation of sounds, accent, intonation and rhythm, and
integrates this knowledge to her/his formation in foreign languages.
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Topics to Develop:
 UNITS 1 & 2: Phonetics vs Phonology
 IPA
Steps, Phase or Stage of the Learning Strategy to Develop
Step 1. Concept Map
Step 2. International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Video
Step 3. Meaningful Feedback
Step 4. Power Point Presentation
Activities to Develop
Step 1: Read all about you can about Phonetics and Phonology. Create
a Concept Map with that information. Post it on the forum named Task
1: Initial Activity - Phonetics vs Phonology
Step 2: Get familiar with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) by
watching the videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4NVPg2kHv4
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69DwHUg2f7s&t=15s
Film yourself pronouncing each of the symbols. Share your video in
the forum named Task 1: Initial Activity - Phonetics Vs Phonology
Step 3. Give meaningful feedback about your partners’ contributions.
Check their Concept Maps and their pronunciation on the videos.
Step 4: Collaboratively design a Power Point Presentation that includes
Steps 1, 2 and 3.
Environme
nts for the Knowledge Environment
Developm Collaborative Learning Environment
ent of the Evaluation and Monitoring Environment
Activity
Products Individual:
to be Concept Map
Submitted - International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Video
by - Meaningful Feedback to Classmates in the Forum (at
Students least 1 comment to 3 different classmates)
Collaborative:
A Power Point Presentation file must be uploaded by the
group leader in the Evaluation and Monitoring
Environment as a final product. The PPT file must
include:
- A front page (with title, full names, ID numbers,
 course name, group number, name of the university,
name of the program, city and date)
- Concept Maps (one slide per student)
- Links to individual videos
- Feedback
- References 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 group activities, as well as
interaction and socialization in the virtual
classroom.
1. Explore the syllabus of the course.
2. Make several readings of the activity guide
and the evaluation rubric for each of the units of
individual and collaborative work.
3. All the activities that are carried out for the
Planning of
development of the activity should be reflected
Activities for the
within the course through the different media
Development of
and especially in the forum of each activity,
Collaborative
since the interaction; if they work by Skype or
Work
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.
Roles to Be 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. Provides leadership and direction for the
Performed by the group 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 includes the work done only by those who
Submission of participated on time. Informs the student in
Products by charge of alerts about people who did not
Students 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
Plagiarism Policy 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 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 1 – Initial activity
Activity Collaborative
Individual Activity ☒ ☒
Type: Activity
Evaluation Initial
☒ Intermediate ☐ Final ☐
Moment Unit 1
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Individual Activity
Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
The Concept Map The Concept Map The Concept Map 5 points
shows an shows some shows no
understanding of mistakes in understanding of
Step 1. the topic’s terminology or the topic’s
Concept concepts and shows a few concepts and
Map principles and misunderstanding principles. It fails
uses appropriate of concepts. It to use any
terminology and identifies appropriate
notations. It important concepts or
identifies all the concepts but appropriate
important makes some connections. It
concepts and incorrect produces a final
shows an connections. It product that is
understanding of places almost all not a concept
the relationships concepts in an map.
among them. It appropriate
constructs an hierarchy and
appropriate and assigns linking
complete concept words to most
map and includes connections;
examples; places produces a
concepts in an concept map that
appropriate is easy to
hierarchy and interpret.
places linking
words on all
connections;
produces a
 concept map that
is easy to
interpret.
(up to 5 points) (up to 3 points) (up to 0 points)
The student
The student has
makes minor or Student makes
errors in
no errors in little or no effort
pronunciation,
pronunciation, to enunciate and
Step 2. some effort in
great articulation articulate in 10 points
IPA Video articulation in
in target language target language.
target language.
with expression.
(up to 10 (up to 0
(up to 5 points)
points) points)
The student
participated in the
forum on time
No feedback was
and gave Poor feedback was
given to
Step 3. meaningful given to partners.
classmates. 5 points
Feedback feedback about
his/her partners’
work.
(up to 0
(up to 5 points) (up to 3 points)
points)
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Collaborative Activity
Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
The group created
a well-organized The group created
The group did
Power Point a Power Point
not design a
Step 4. Presentation that Presentation but
Power Point
Power Point includes all the not all participants 5 points
Presentation
Presentation required shared their Steps
information.
(up to 0
(up to 5 points) (up to 3 points)
points)
Final Score 25