Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Didactics of English
Code: 518022

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric - Phase 3 Language Skills

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: In Collaborative Group

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
Highest score of the activity: 175 points
The activity starts on: Friday, March The activity ends on: Thursday, April 28,
215, 2022 2022
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:
Examine the development of receptive and productive skills in the teaching of English
as a foreign language by designing a presentation with interactive proposals.

The activity consists of:

Step 1: Individually read the documents Teaching receptive and productive
language skills with the help of techniques and Receptive and productive
language skills in language teaching in Unit 2 - Language Skills - Contents and
bibliographical references found in the Language Environment. Share in the forum a
written paragraph answering the following information:
• Definition of receptive and productive skills
• The order of development of the skills

Step 2: Each student must propose one virtual didactical activity per skill in order to
effectively develop the four language skills and share them in a Word document in
the forum. For instance, for reading, propose a text and the activities to encourage
reading skills, or for listening, share the audio and the activities. Be creative. As a
group, you will choose the best-proposed virtual didactical activities for developing
the four English skills.

Step 3: As a group create a web page in WIX where you will present the following
information:
• Introduction
• Definition of receptive and productive skills
• The order of development of the skills

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 • The four chosen virtual didactical activities per skill
• Conclusions
• References

Step 4: You will continue with your participant observation practice in the educational
institution. You have to complete the 10 hours of participant observation practice in
the educational institution (observe and participate 8 hours - material design 2
hours). Take Anexo 3 - Formato de Asistencia al Lugar de Práctica (Download it
from the learning environment) and complete it with the dates, the times and the
names of the activities observed, materials designed or created for the class, the
name of the school supervisor teacher, remember that he or she must sign the hours
of participant observation practice.

For the observations, you will complete the Anexo 4 - Classroom Observation
Protocol. Here you will complete all the items according to what you see in the
different classes you observe. You have to complete this format for every class, it
means that if you observe 5 classes, then you will complete the format 5 times. All of
them must be delivered for this phase. Complete Anexo 5 – Material Design
Observation Protocol for the two (2) hours of material created. Once you finish this
part, upload these documents to the same folder in Google Drive, by creating another
file named phase 3, all these documents will remain where you have been sharing
your practice forms.
Remember that your role at the school will be as a participant observer then you
must help the school supervisor teacher in all the school activities during your
practice hours

Step 5: Get together as a group and make a videoconference (20 to 30 minutes long)
with all the members of the group speaking in English. In a synchronic meeting talk
about your own observation practice experiences. It is suggested to do it using
skype, or any other platform, to record the video call, uploaded the recording to
YouTube and send the link in the final pdf document.

To start the video, say your names and during the whole video your faces have to
show in the camera. Provide a general description of the observed classes:
institution, grade of students, remarkable features, teacher, etc.
Discuss the following questions in the meeting:
1. Did you perceive that the teacher planned every class, or he/she rather
improvised in the sessions? Is that planning or improvisation successful or
not? Explain why.
2. What pedagogical skills do you highlight of the English teacher?

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 3. What were the general attitudes of students towards the English class, their
teacher, and classmates? Why do you think that happens?
4. Do you consider students learnt thanks to the teacher’s skills? Why or why
not?
5. Would you change anything in the teacher’s attitude? What and why?
6. In the case that students are not very fluent in English, why do you think that
happens?
7. Which skills does the teacher encourage the most in students: writing,
speaking, listening or reading? Why do you think he/she focuses mostly on
that or those particular skills and not in all of them?

Step 6: You have to attend the second mandatory meeting as a Strategy of

presential accompaniment of the School of Science of Education ESAPEC for practice
students. This virtual meeting of three hours is graded and is counted as part of the
32 hours of participant observation practice (given the health emergency, for the
academic term 16-01-2022 the participant observation practice may be carried out
virtually or in situ, the information for each site will be sent to you via the course
internal mail).

Step 7: Individually upload the following documents into a Google Drive folder (the
tutor will send you the link to your institutional e-mail) create a folder and name it
phase 3, and create the following sub-folders:

Consider that only the forms of the participant observation practice will remain in
your folder for the entire course as your e-portfolio.

Participant observation practice forms folder:

• Anexo 2 - Diario de Campo (name your file as follows: Diario de Campo_Your

Full Name_ID Number.PDF)
• Anexo 3 - Formato de Asistencia al Lugar de Práctica, it must include 8 hours of
participant observation practice with signatures (name your file as follows:
Formato de Asistencia al Lugar de Práctica_Your Full Name_ID Number.PDF)
• Anexo 4 - Classroom Observation Protocol form (1 for every observed class) -
(name your file as follows: Classroom Observation Protocol - Part 1_Your Full
Name_ID Number.PDF)
• Anexo 5- Material Design Observation Protocol (1 for material created) (name
your file as follows: Material Design Protocol_Your Full Name_ID Number.PDF)

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Anexo 6 - Photo evidence: Download the photo evidence file from the learning
environment. Take some pictures of your observation and save evidence of the
support you give to carry out the classes or the material you have created for the
classes (please avoid taking pictures of children).

Photo Evidence Folder:

Photo Evidence: Please identify your file as follows: Photo Evidence_Your Full
Name_ID_Number.PDF

Material design evidence: Upload to your folder all the material you have designed
for the school. This material must be designed by the student, and it is totally
forbidden to download and use information from other authors.

Material Evidence Folder:

Please identify your file as follows: Material Evidence_Creation Date_Your Full

Name_ID_Number.PDF Upload a PDF file, PPT, Video. It depends on the kind of
material you have designed.

This information must be in the e-portfolio and be delivered before the deadline. The
forms that you upload must be filled and you cannot change the size, color, or any
other characteristic that the original document has.

Step 8: In the Evaluation Environment, upload only one collaborative work including
all the activities described in this activity guide.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must: check the agenda and check the
date, time and link of the second web conference.

In the Learning Environment, you must: read all the contents of Unit 2, develop and
socialize the activities in the forum Phase 3 - Language Skills.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must: upload the collaborative work in the link:
Unit 3 - Phase 3 - Language Skills - Evaluation Rubric and Activity
Submission

Evidence of independent work:

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The independent evidence to be submitted is:
• Written paragraph about the analysis Receptive and productive language skills.
• Screenshot of uploading all the practice forms into a specific folder, in a given
Google Drive.
• Screenshots of the participation in the second ESAPEC virtual meeting.

Evidence of group work:

The group work evidence to be submitted is:
• A pdf document with a cover page, introduction, written paragraphs about the
analysis of receptive and productive language skills (1 per student).
• Link of the webpage with the four chosen virtual didactical activities per skill.
• Link of the videoconference.
• The individual screenshots of uploading the practice forms and participation in
ESAPEC meeting.
• Conclusions and references.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Group Work evidence, consider the following:

• All members of the group must participate with their contributions in the
development of the activity.

• In each group a single member will be chosen to submit the requested product in
the environment indicated by the teacher.

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

• Only the members of the group that participated with contributions during the
time assigned for the activity should be included as authors of the submitted
product.

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 7th edition.
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.
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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: In Collaborative Group

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 2
The highest score in this activity is 145 points
First evaluation High level: The student proposes meaningful teaching
criterion: receptive and productive language skills proposals thus
showing a good understanding of them.
Design a proposal If your work is at this level, you can get between 21 points
for teaching and 25 points
receptive and
productive language Average level: The student proposes somewhat appropriate
skills teaching receptive and productive language skills proposals thus
showing a fair understanding of them.
This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 11 points
represents 25 and 20 points
points of the total
of 145 points of Low level: The student does not propose any teaching receptive
the activity. and productive language skills proposals, or the proposals are
not well-structured.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 25 points

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Second evaluation High level: The student actively participates in the design of a
criterion: webpage presenting meaningful and complete teaching virtual
didactical activities.
Create a webpage If your work is at this level, you can get between 21 points
with virtual and 25 points
didactical activities
This criterion Average level: The student partially participates in the design
represents 25 of a webpage presenting some teaching virtual didactical
points of the total activities.
of 145 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 11 points
the activity. and 20 points

Low level: The student does not participate in the design of a

webpage presenting some teaching virtual didactical activities.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 10 points
Third evaluation High level: The student actively participates in the group video
criterion: conference and effectively discusses the practice process.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 21 points
Participate in group and 25 points
video conference
Average level: The student participates in the group video
This criterion conference but hardly discusses the practice process.
represents 25 If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
points of the total and 30 points
of 145 points of
the activity. Low level: The student does not participate in the group video
conference.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 10 points
Fourth evaluation High level: The student actively participates in the ESAPEC
criterion: meeting successfully developing all the activities.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 21 points
Attend second and 25 points
ESAPEC meeting
Average level: The student partially participates in the ESAPEC
This criterion meeting developing some activities.
represents 25 If your work is at this level, you can get between 11 points
points of the total and 20 points

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of 145 points of Low level: The student does not participate in the ESAPEC
the activity. meeting.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 10 points
Fifth evaluation High level: The student successfully uploads in his/her folder
criterion: all the requested forms of the participant observation practice in
a complete way.
Submit participant If your work is at this level, you can get between 36 points
observation practice and 45 points
forms
Average level: The student partially uploads in his/her folder
This criterion some of the requested forms of the participant observation
represents 45 practice.
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 21 points
of 145 points of and 35 points
the activity.
Low level: The student does not upload in her/his folder the
requested formats of the participant observation practice.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 20 points