Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Methodology in Foreign Language Teaching
Code: 518005

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Phase 1 – Initial Activity

1. Activity Description
Type of activity: Collaborative
Evaluation moment: Initial
Highest score of the activity: 25 points
The activity starts on: Monday, February The activity ends on: Sunday, February
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With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

To reflect on the role of methodologies and strategies for foreign language teaching,
through the recognition of their own educational experiences.

The activity consists of:

Step 1: Reflective questions

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the difference between method and approach?
2. Have you had bad experiences in your English learning process?
3. Do you consider that a teacher can use more than one English teaching
method? Why?
4. What do you know about English teaching methodologies? What’s your favorite
one?
5. What do you think should be the role of the teacher inside the classroom?
6. Why do materials used in the English classes play an important role in the
teaching process?
7. How do motivation is related to the English learning methodology applied by
the teacher in the classroom?
8. What are your expectations about this course?

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Step 2: Forum Participation
Post the answer to the above questions in the forum opened for this Phase. Also,
share your personal information, such as telephone number, personal email and
home city.

Step 3: Feedback
Give meaningful feedback to at least two of your classmates in the forum. Read their
answers and make comments on the structure and content. Consider the corrections
made in the forum to improve your performance. You should give and receive
feedback at least 3 days prior to the ending of this activity. Also, take screenshots of
your feedbacks and add them to the final document.

Step 4: ARL Certification:

This certification is essential for the development of your observation practices.
Hence, in order to know how to get this certification, it is mandatory to attend the
first web conference of the course. This certification must be scanned and delivered
in PDF format.

Step 5: E- Portfolio:

Your tutor will send you the link to access to your E-portfolio. You need to check
your institutional email as well as your inbox. In this place, you will upload the
different formats that each activity guide will ask for, so this is going to be your
official folder for the term.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must: check the date and time of the first
web conference of the course in the link: Synchronous meetings by webconference

In the Learning Environment, you must: Participate in the collaborative forum Phase
1 – Initial Activity, share your answers of the questions and personal information.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

Deliver a PDF with
-Answers of the questions step 1.
-Screenshots of the feedback.
-ARL Certification scanned in PDF format.

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Evidences of individual work:
The individual evidence to be submitted is:

A Zip file with

*A PDF document with
Cover page – APA Style: student´s name, name of the course, code, group, tutor and
university.
-Answers of the questions step 1.
-Screenshots of the feedback.
*A second PDF with
-ARL Certification

Evidences of collaborative work:

No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Individual evidences, consider the following

• Students must deliver two PDF documents, the first one with the answers and
screenshots and the ARL Certification scanned in PDF format.

• Before submitting the requested product, students should check that it meets all
the requirements mentioned in this activity guide.

Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must
comply with APA style.
In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic plagiarism.
You can review your written products using the Turnitin tool found in the virtual
campus.

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

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research products, which have rights reserved for the University. (Acuerdo 029 - 13
de diciembre de 2013, artículo 99)

The academic penalties students 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.

3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Collaborative

Evaluation moment: Initial
The highest score in this activity is 25 points
First evaluation High level: The student answers all questions about their
criterion: previous knowledge, showing deep reflection and understanding
of the course concepts.
Reflective questions If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
and 10 points
This criterion
represents 10 Average level: The student does not answer all the questions
points of the total about their previous knowledge, and shows weak reflection and
of 25 points of understanding of the course concepts.
the activity. If your work is at this level, you can get between 3 points
and 5 points

Low level: The student does not answer the questions.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 1 point
Second evaluation High level: The student participates in the forum and gives
criterion: meaningful feedback to at least three members of the group and
share his/her personal information.
Forum participation If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
and 5 points
This criterion
represents 5 Average level: The student participates in the forum, but
points of the total she/he does not give meaningful feedback to at least three

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of 25 points of members of the group, and the personal information is not
the activity. complete.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
and 3 points

Low level: The student does not participate in the forum.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 1 point
Third evaluation High level: The student delivers the ARL certification scanned
criterion: and in PDF format.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
ARL Certification and 10 points

This criterion Average level: The student delivers a picture of the ARL
represents 10 certification.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
of 25 points of and 5 points
the activity.
Low level: The student does not deliver the ARL Certification.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 1 point