Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Didactics of English
Code: 551026

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 1 - Pre-task – Language Teaching

Theories

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Initial
Highest score of the activity: 25 points
The activity starts on: Monday, The activity ends on: Sunday, February
February 1, 2021 14, 2021
With these activities, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcome:

• To describe theories and ideologies that have influenced language teaching,

through the creation of appealing and creative graphic organizers.

The activities consist of:

Activity 1:
Go to the forum in the Learning Environment and make your contributions about the
concept of the term Didactics of English. For that, post what you think this field
makes reference to, what it studies, and so on. You can read about this term and
share the information in the forum.

Activity 2:
Read the document “Theories of teaching in language teaching”, found in the
Learning Environment, UNIT 1, and once you have understood and internalized the
contents, create a graphic organizer to describe the theories for language
teaching presented in the document. Make sure you identify the theories in the
document and present them in the organizer in a clear, creative and summarized
way.

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The graphic organizer might be a concept map, mind map, idea wheel, idea web, etc.
On the web you can find many sites to create these tools.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must check the course agenda
(activities, dates…)
In the Learning Environment, you must check the syllabus of the course, read the
suggested reference in Unit 1, and participate in the forum opened for the purposes
of this guide.
In the Evaluation Environment, you must submit the final document containing the
activities proposed in this guide.

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

Written document containing the definition of Didactics of English and the graphic
organizer about the language teaching theories.

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:

• You must consider the feedback provided by your mates and professor in the
forum to improve the final work. Upload to the evaluation environment the
improved version of your work.
• Make sure the paper is complete, well-presented and organized. This will
facilitate the evaluation.
• Before submitting the requested product, you should check that it meets all the
requirements mentioned in this activity guide and suggested by your tutor in the
discussion forum.

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.

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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
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: Individual

Evaluation moment: Initial
The highest score in this activity is 25 points
High level: The student constructed a definition for Didactics
of English which represents the main scope of this field.
Information is accurate and shows student’s critical point of
First evaluation view.
criterion: If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
and 7 points
Provide a clear
concept of Didactics Average level: The student constructed a definition for
of English Didactics of English which partially represents the main scope
of this field. Information is partially accurate and partially
shows student’s critical point of view

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This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
represents 7 and 5 points
points of the total
of 25 points of Low level: The student did not construct a definition for
the activity. Didactics of English to represent the main scope of this field.
Information is not accurate and does not show student’s critical
point of view
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 3 points

High level: The student created a graphic organizer of any

kind (concept map, mind map, idea wheel…) which structure is
creative, organized and coherent with the information
presented.
Second evaluation If your work is at this level, you can get between 7
criterion: points and 8 points

Design a graphic Average level: The student created a graphic organizer of any
organizer kind (concept map, mind map, idea wheel…) which structure is
partially creative, organized and coherent with the information
presented.
This criterion
If your work is at this level, you can get between 4
represents 8
points and 6 points
points of the total
of 25 points of
Low level: The student did not create a graphic organizer of
the activity.
any kind (concept map, mind map, idea wheel…) or its
structure is not creative, organized and coherent with the
information presented.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 3 points

High level: The student identified and described accurately the

theories for language teaching proposed by the author.
Information is summarized, clear and free from linguistic
Third evaluation mistakes.
criterion: If your work is at this level, you can get between 8
points and 10 points
Describe the
theories of language Average level: The student partially identified and described
teaching accurately the theories for language teaching proposed by the

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 author. Information is partially summarized, clear and free
This criterion from linguistic mistakes.
represents 10 If your work is at this level, you can get between 5
points of the total points and 7 points
of 25 points of
the activity. Low level: The student did not identify and describe
accurately the theories for language teaching proposed by the
author, or information is not summarized, clear and free from
linguistic mistakes.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 4 points