Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Introduction to Linguistics
Code: 518017
Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric - Task 3 - The nature of grammar
1. Activity Description
Type of activity: Individual
Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 120 points
The activity starts on: Tuesday, The activity ends on: Monday,
October 6, 2020 November 2, 2020
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcome:

- Analyze the nature of grammar by understanding the foundations of the

different classical levels of language study.

The activity consists of:

Step 1: Checking

- Go to the Learning Environment and check the Course Contents and

Bibliographic References for Unit 1. Read Chapter 7 - Grammar, pages 80-95,
in Yule, G. (2010). The Study of Language. Cambridge University Press. Read
also Chapter 4 - Grammar, pages 19-24, in Bauer, L. (2007). The Linguistic
Student’s Handbook. Edinburgh University Press.
- Check your mates’ individual works and give relevant feedback in order to
improve. You can provide some recommendations in terms of contents,
presentation, organization, language, etc. Take in mind that your comments
have to be really important. Comments like “excellent work”, “congratulations”,
“good job” are not considered as relevant feedback, just the comments that
allow your partners to improve. It is asked to check at least once each one of
your mates’ works. At the end, if you don’t give relevant feedback to any of
your mates, your score will be affected.

Step 2: Analysis

- Identify all the parts of speech used in the following sentence (e.g.

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 woman = noun):
o The woman kept a large snake in a cage, but it escaped recently.
- What prescriptive rules for the “proper” use of English are not obeyed in the
following sentences and how would they be “corrected”?
o The old theory consistently failed to fully explain all the data.
o I can’t remember the name of the person I gave the book to.
- Another term used in the description of the parts of speech is “determiner.”
o What are determiners? How many examples were included in this
chapter?
- In this chapter, we discussed “correction” in grammar.
o What is hypercorrection?
- The structural analysis of a basic English sentence (NP + V + NP) is often
described as “Subject Verb Object” or SVO. The basic sentence order in a
Gaelic sentence (V + NP + NP) is described as “Verb Subject Object” or VSO.
After looking at the examples below (based on Inoue, 1979), would you
describe the basic sentence order in these Japanese sentences as SVO or VSO
or something else?
o Jakku-ga gakkoo-e ikimasu
Jack school to go
(“Jack goes to school”)
o Kazuko-ga gakkoo-de eigo-o naratte imasu
Kazuko school at English learn be
(“Kazuko is learning English at school”)
- Divergence in the syntactic patterns of languages is responsible for the
patterns of errors made by English-language learners. Given that English-
language learners from Korea produce sentences such as *I ice-cream like and
*I book read, what can you say about word order in Korean? (Taken from
Gordon T. 2012)
- Based on the second text please answer:
o In the text we can see that in the history of linguistics we have two forms
to understand grammar: A Prescriptive form and a Descriptive one; why
the second comprehension it is considered a breakthrough in Linguistics?

Step 3: Delivery

- Send to the Evaluation environment a PDF file with the analysis.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

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 - Check the Course Agenda to organize your time.
- Check the Course News for important information.
- Verify your tutors’ synchronous attention by Skype.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

- Check the Course Contents and Bibliographic References for Unit 1.

- Go to the discussion forum for the task and participate.
- Give proper feedback to your e-mates.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

- Upload a PDF file with the task’s individual evidences. Identify your file as
follows: 518017 - Task 3 - Your Full Name.pdf

Evidences of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

A PDF file named 518017 - Task 3 - Your Full Name.pdf with the following pages:
1. Cover Page
2. Complete analysis of the provided questions
3. Screenshot of forum participation
4. APA References

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:

• Be sure to carefully read the instructions in this activity guide.

• Be sure to revise content, structure and mechanics in everything you post in the
forums and/or sent for evaluation.

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

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
The highest score in this activity is 120 points
First evaluation High level: The information shows that the student explored
criterion: and analyzed the provided references. It is evident that the
student understood the concepts and mastered the topics.
Explore the required
references. If your work is at this level, you can get between 24
points and 30 points
This criterion
represents 30 Average level: The information partially shows that the
points of the total student explored and analyzed the provided references. It is
of 120 points of partially evident that the student understood the concepts and
the activity. mastered the topics.

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 If your work is at this level, you can get between 18
points and 23 points

Low level: The information hardly shows that the student

explored and analyzed the provided references. It is hardly
evident that the student understood the concepts and
mastered the topics.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 17 points

Second evaluation High level: Actively participates in the forum to give relevant
criterion: feedback to all the group members that participated on the
task.
Participate in forum.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 24
This criterion points and 30 points
represents 30
points of the total Average level: Partially participates in the forum giving two or
of 120 points of more incomplete comments to partners.
the activity.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 18
points and 23 points

Low level: Does not participate actively in the forum and/or

comments are not relevant.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 17 points

Third evaluation High Level: The student shows assertiveness and relevance in
criterion: the answers given to the provided questions.

Answer assertively If your work is at this level, you can get between 40
and relevantly to points and 50 points
the provided
questions. Average Level: The student partially shows assertiveness
and relevance in the answers given to the provided questions.
This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 30
represents 50 points and 39 points

5
points of the total
of 120 points of Low level: The student hardly shows assertiveness and
the activity. relevance in the answers given to the provided questions.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 29 points

Fourth evaluation High level: The document meets the criteria for presentation
criterion: according to APA standards.

Present a PDF file If your work is at this level, you can get between 8
according to APA points and 10 points
standards.
Average level: The document partially meets the criteria for
This criterion presentation according to APA standards.
represents 10
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 6
of 120 points of points and 7 points
the activity.
Low level: The document does not meet the criteria for
presentation according to APA standards.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 5 points