Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

School or School of education

Academic Unit
Academic Level Professional
Academic Field Disciplinar
Course Name Teaching English to adolescents and adults
Course Code 551004
Course Type Methodological Retake yes ☐ No ☒
exam
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ of 3
activity:
weeks
Evaluation
Initial ☒ Intermediate ☐ Final ☐
moment:
Environment to submit the
Total score of the activity:
activity: Monitoring and evaluation
25
environment.
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity:
activity: August 23rd, 2018 September 5th, 2018
Competences to develop:
Argumentative, propositional and technological

Topics to develop:
Content Unit 1: Language awareness and actors

Step, phase or stage of the learning strategy to develop

This stage will be developed individually by answering some
questions based on an article about language awareness and
actors.

Activities to develop
Task 1: written work

1. Read the document from Richard and Lockhart, Focus on the

learner, in Reflective Teaching in Second Language
Classrooms: (pp. 52–77) you find in the knowledge
environment.

2. Answer the next questions based on the text in a word

document:

- How does the cultural background of learners influence the

beliefs about the language learning?
How should teachers deal with culturally based differences
between teachers' and learners'
beliefs?
- According to Knowles, which are the four different ways
people respond to learning situations?
- Oxford proposed 6 learning strategies to make learning
easier, faster and more enjoyable.
Mention them and write for each one example of your own
experience.

3. Print the appendix 3 of the document by Richard and Lockhart

and fill in it the page 75. Scan the document to submit it with
the word document.

4. Save the word document and the appendix 3 in a zip folder and
submit the folder in the link created for this activity you find
in the monitoring and evaluation environment.

This activity will be developed in the forum

Environments
created in the collaborative environment. This
for the
forum is only for questions about the activity,
development
you do not need to interact with your partners or
of the activity
develop any collaborative work.
Individual:
Products to
be submitted A word document with the answers to the
by students questions proposed in this activity guide.
 Collaborative:

None

3. General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
activities for
the
This is an individual activity, so none collaborative
development
work is going to be developed in this assignment.
of
collaborative
work
Roles to be
performed
by the
This is an individual activity, so none collaborative
student in
work is going to be developed in this assignment.
the
collaborative
group
Roles and
duties for
the This is an individual activity, so none collaborative
submission work is going to be developed in this assignment.
of products
by students
All references considered for this activity have to
References
be cited using APA Style
In agreement 029 of December 13th, 2013, article
99, considers as offenses that infringe upon the
academic order, among others, the following:
paragraph e) “To plagiarize is to present as your
Plagiarism own the total sum or part of the whole of a piece
policy or work, writing, report, task, document of
invention developed by another person. It also
implies the lack of citation or lack of references, or
including citations 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 penalties that the student may face

are:
a) In case of proved academic fraud in the
academic work or evaluation, the student
will receive a zero (0.0) score without
separation of the corresponding disciplinary
sanction.
b) In case of proved plagiarism in the academic
work of any nature, the student will receive
a zero (0.0) score without separation of the
corresponding disciplinary sanction.

4. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation rubric
Collaborative
Activity Individual ☐
☒ Activity
type: Activity
Evaluation Intermediate ☐
Initial ☒ Final ☐
moment
Evaluated Performance levels of the individual activity
Score
items High score Average score Low score
You recognize You empower You have
and empower partially the course serious
Interpreta course elements and difficulties to
tive elements and issues on teaching recognize 6
competen issues on English to and points
ce teaching adolescents and empower
English to adults for accurate the course
adolescents elements
 and adults for interpretation of and issues
accurate texts. on teaching
interpretation English to
of texts. adolescents
and adults
for accurate
interpretatio
n of texts.
(up to 6 (up to 2
(up to 4 points)
points) points)
You You reason about You have
demonstrate general issues difficulty to
ability to about learners’ explain
explain with beliefs and learning about
clear ideas situations and learners’
about learners’ strategies, but the beliefs and
Argument
beliefs and explanations are learning
ative 6
learning not clear enough. situations
competen points
situations and and
ce
strategies. strategies in
an
understandi
ng way.
(up to 6 (up to 2
(up to 4 points)
points) points)
You explain You explain the 6 You explain
clearly the 6 learning strategies very briefly
learning but the examples the
strategies and are taken directly strategies or
Propositiv support them from the text. you didn’t
e with your own show 6
competen examples. examples points
ce about your
own
experience.
(up to 6 (up to 2
(up to 4 points)
points) points)
 You fill in the You didn’t fill in You didn’t
appendix 3 the appendix 3 fill in the
about your about your own appendix 3
Appendix own learning learning style about your
3 about style preferences own learning
3
perceptua preferences completely. style
points
l learning and add this to preferences.
style the final
submission.
(Up to 3 (Up to 0
(Up to 1 points)
points) points)
The written The document is There is not
job is not complete, the a written
complete and information is work to
its structure irrelevant or its check.
Document fits to the structure does not
format, established fit the established
Structure requirements requirements of the 4
and of the guidelines given. points
submissio guidelines You only submit
n given. You one of the
submit the 2 documents.
documents.
(Up to 4 (Up to 0
(Up to 2 points)
points) points)
25
Final score
Points