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Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric
Task 5 – The suprasegmentals

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 English Phonetics
Course Code 518014
Course Type Metodológico Retake Yes ☐ No ☒
Exam
Number of Credits 2

2. Description of the Activity

Type of Number of
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☒ 4
Activity: Weeks
Evaluation
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
Moment:
Environment to Submit the
Total Score of the Activity:
Activity: Monitoring and Evaluation
70
Environment
Starting Date of the
Deadline of the Activity:
Activity:
Jun 30th, 2020
Jun 1st, 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
their own pronunciation, in order to communicate in real life
situations.

- The student recognizes the language as a cultural manifestation

associated with the practices of different human groups, as well as
their differentiating factors such as the articulation of sounds, accent,
intonation and rhythm, and the student integrates this knowledge to
his/her training in foreign languages.

Topics to Develop:
• Unit 2
• The suprasegmentals
• Rhythm, intonation and stress
Steps, Phase or Stage of the Learning Strategy to Develop
Step 1: Read all related to The suprasegmentals.
Step 2: Download the Pronunciation practice document.
Step 3: Record yourself.
Step 4: Collaboratively develop the practical exercises.
Step 5: Review the contributions and choose the best answers
Step 6: Write a reflection
Step7: Submit the reflection in turnitin
Activities to Develop

Step 1: Go to the Knowledge environment, unit 2 and read all related

to The suprasegmentals and focus on Rhythm, intonation and stress.

Step 2: Go to the Collaborative Environment and open the folder

Activity guide and evaluation rubrics – Task 5 – The suprasegmentals
and download the document named English Phonetics_ Task
5_Pronunciation Practice.

Step 3: Record yourself developing and pronouncing all the exercises

of the document, including the reading, the intonation, rhythm and
stress exercises. Also, red the following specifications:

-Show your face and mouth when pronouncing the sounds, I need to
see your performance in the pronunciation of the exercises.
-Show the document with the exercises as you pronounce them, in
order to facilitate the identification of the sounds and be able to give
meaningful feedback (you can use the tool https://screencast-o-matic.com/)
- Here you have to pronounce all the exercises of the document,
including the reading, the intonation and rhythm exercises.
-In this video you must focus on rhythm, stress and intonation.
Step 4: Go to the Collaborative Environment and open the folder
Activity guide and evaluation rubrics – Task 5 – The suprasegmentals
and download the document named English Phonetics_ Task 5_written
exercises and collaboratively develop the practical exercises.

Step 5: Review the contributions of your classmates and choose the

best answers to the exercises and compile a single document
throughout the group with the solved exercises.

Step 6: Write a reflection stablishing a comparative relation between

English and Spanish sounds, this reflection must be written following
the next specifications:
-Use a least 350 words.
-Use APA style for citations and references.
-Explain the differences and similarities between Spanish and English
sounds.
-The importance of knowing about the segmental and suprasegmental
features of English.
-Answer the following question: Do you think is it important to teach
pronunciation in early stages?

Here is a chart that can help you with your reflection.

Murcia (2019) Spanish vs English sounds

Step 7: After you finish to write your reflection and exercises, you
have to submit them in Turnitin, in order to check the reliability of
your text. This tool helps us to avoid plagiarism. To do this, you need
to go to the Evaluation and Monitoring Environment and open the link
Task 5 – The suprasegmentals- Step 7 – Reflection submission.
If you do not submit your reflection in turnitin, this will not be
graded.
Besides, if you want to submit a first draft of your reflection you can
use DRAFT BANK ECEDU, this is a useful tool that can help you to
correct references and citations, in order to avoid low scores in
turnitin.
You can find DRAFT BANK ECEDU in the Virtual Campus, under the
special courses.

Environmen
Knowledge Environment
ts for the
Collaborative Learning Environment
Developme
Evaluation and Monitoring Environment
nt of the
Practical environment
Activity
Individual:
Link of the video, exercises and the reflection
Products to
submitted to turnitin
be
Submitted Collaborative:
by Students
The exercises are collaborative, but you have to submit
the final document individually.

3. General Guidelines for the Collaborative Work

Planning of Collaborative learning is a strategy that allows

Activities for the students to work together in order to achieve a
Development of common goal. Accordingly, the collaborative
Collaborative work proposed for the course is based on a
Work 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
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
Roles to Be
interpersonal relationships. Every student will
Performed by the
take up one of these roles for the development
Student in the
of the course assignments and can only be
Collaborative
changed if decided by the group members.
Group
Facilitator: Makes sure that every voice is
heard and focuses work around the learning
task. Provides leadership and direction for the
group and suggests solutions to team problems.
 Recorder: Keeps a public record of the team's
ideas and progress. Checks to be sure that ideas
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.
Compiler: Puts together the final product and
includes the work done only by those who
participated on time. Informs the student in
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.
Roles and Duties
Evaluator: Evaluates the final document to
for the
ensure it follows the evaluation criteria of the
Submission of
rubric and informs the student in charge of
Products by
alerts about any changes that need to be made
Students
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
Plagiarism Policy
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 5 – The suprasegmentals
Activity Collaborative
Individual Activity ☒ ☒
Type: Activity
Evaluation Intermediate
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
Moment Unit 2
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Individual Activity
Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
The video is The video is not
complete, the complete, the
student shows pronunciation is
good not accurate,
Step 2 pronunciation and finally it does not There is not video
video follow the follow all the at all.
20 points
pronunciatio specifications specifications
n exercises added in the added in the
Activity Guide and Activity Guide and
Rubric. Rubric.
(up to 20 (up to 10
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
The reflection is
not written
The reflection is
following the
written following
specifications in
the specifications
the guide; and
in the guide; also,
the student does The student does
the student
Step 6 not submit the not write any
submits the
Write a document to reflection. 20 points
document to
reflection turnitin, or the
turnitin and the
student does the
results show good
submission, but it
reliability.
does not show
good reliability.
(up to 20 (up to 10
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Collaborative Activity
Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
All the exercises Some exercises
are correct, are wrong,
Step 4 The student does
showing good showing poor
practical not solve any 20 points
understanding of understanding of
exercises exercise.
the sounds and the sound
the features production.
 involved in the
production of the
sounds.
(up to 20 (up to 10
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
The student The student does
Posts at the not post at the
The student does
beginning of the beginning of the
not post any
Forum activity and activity and
contribution in
contribution his/her his/her 10 points
the forum.
s contributions are contributions are
meaningful. not meaningful.
(up to 10
(up to 5 points) (up to 0 points)
points)
Final Score 70