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 English Conversation
Course Code 551015
Course Type Teórico Práctico Retake Yes ☐ No ☒
exam
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ of 4
activity:
weeks
Evaluation
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
moment:
Total score of the activity: Environment to submit the
80 activity: Collaborative Learning
Starting date of the Deadline of the activity: April 11th,
activity: March12th, 2018 2018
Competence to develop:
Students suitably improve their advanced English oral expression
competencies to put up their level from independent to proficient user.

Topics to develop:
Unit 1: Fostering speaking skills through debates

Step, phase or stage of the learning strategy to develop

Task 3: Collaborative work on debates
To participate in a debate on a controversial linguistic issue
Activities to develop

1. Register in a Google Drive document in order to participate in a

synchronic debate via skype to demonstrate your ability to
support your ideas about a controversial topic, strengthening
also your sociolinguistic skills. (Select topic-date-hour) – The
registration will be sent through a course message-

2. Watch the video about a controversial topic that is posted in the

google drive you registered.

3. On the selected day, you are to present and defend your ideas
verbally, accurately and fluently via skype, following these
steps:
a. Presenting a two-minute summary of the video and/or
reading.
b. Organizing and making a five-minute verbal presentation on
pros or cons of a topic assigned by the tutor during the
debate.
c. Defending and debating your ideas regarding your assigned
topic.
d. Answering and asking questions to your debate peers.
e. Expressing a minute-conclusion on the debate.

NOTE: The use of microphone and web cam is mandatory.

Collaborative Learning: Sign up to participate in

the synchronic debate via skype– Interact with peers
Environments by asking and answering meaningful questions on
for the the selected topic.
development
of the activity Monitoring and Evaluation: Check your grade and
feedback.

Individual:
a. a two-minute verbal summary of the video and/or
Products to
reading
be submitted
b. a five-minute verbal presentation on pros or cons
by students
of a topic assigned by the tutor during the debate.
c. a minute-conclusion on the debate
 Collaborative:
a. Questions and answers to your debate peers.
b. Meaningful and clear participation in all the steps
of the debate.

General guidelines for the collaborative work

All collaborative activities complement each other and

make part of the task based approach and they
represent a clear and significant sequence on the
Planning of
speaking English process which is the main purpose of
activities for
the course.
the
Thus, each collaborative task is planned for three or
development
four weeks and will consist of:
of
-Reading theoretical resources and watching videos on
collaborative
language issues
work
-Be prepared to participate on the debate on the
selected date and time by Skype

Roles to be
performed
by the This activity does not require the distribution of roles
student in as the outcome is the participation in a live debate
the through Skype.
collaborative
group
Roles and
duties for
Distribution of roles is not required for this activity, as
the
each student participates on the selected date and
submission
time in the debate for about two hours.
of products
by students
All references considered for this activity have to be
References
cited using APA Style
Plagiarism
Plagiarism takes place when we use another person’s
policy
ideas without giving credit to them.
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 own the total sum or
part of the whole of a piece 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
Activity Collaborative
Individual Activity ☒ ☒
type: Activity
Evaluation
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
moment
Evaluated Performance levels of the individual activity
Score
items High score Average score Low score
Ideas are
expressed
Ideas are
adequately but It is difficult to
expressed with
inconsistencies understand ideas
ease in proper
Grammar are often because of 10 points
sentence structure
displayed with grammar mistakes
and tenses
sentence structure
and tenses
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (0 points)
It is slightly
It is difficult to
Pronunciation is unclear with
understand
Pronunciati very clear and easy pronunciation at
because of unclear 10 points
on to understand times, but
pronunciation
generally is fair
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (Up to 2 points)
Speech is effortless
Speech is very
and smooth with Speech is slow
slow, stumbling,
speed that comes and often hesitant
Fluency nervous, and 10 points
close to that of a and irregular
uncertain
native speaker
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (Up to 2 points)
Uses limited
vocabulary and
expressions or
Uses a variety of uses a variety of Uses only basic
Vocabulary vocabulary and vocabulary and vocabulary and 10 points
expressions expressions, but expressions
makes some
errors in word
choice
 (Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (Up to 2 points)
Evaluated Performance levels of the collaborative activity
Score
items High score Average score Low score
Although there is
All team members a participation in
No participation in
participated equally the opening
the opening
Opening in the opening statement,
statement of the 10 points
statement statements, taking student took less
debate
2 minutes than 2 minutes at
this stage
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (0 points)
Although there is
Rebuttal was
a rebuttal, this
specific to
was not specific to
arguments made in There is not
Presenting the opposing
the opposing part’s participation in
cons and team's opening 10 points
opening statement. the rebuttal
pros statement, or it
The rebuttal is 2
didn’t take the set
minutes’ long
time (2 minutes)
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (0 points)
The side (pro or
The side asks and con) asks and
The answer to
answers accurately answers the
Questions counterpart’s
the counterpart’s counterpart’s
and question does not 10 points
question no longer question, but it
answers fit the statement
than 3 minutes takes more than 3
minutes
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (Up to 2 points)
The conclusion
Conclusion is
takes less than 2
accurate in regards
minutes or it does No conclusion is
of the topic and
Conclusions not go to the point provided 10 points
takes no longer
of the whole
than 2 minutes
exercise
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (0 points)
Final score 80 Points