Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: English Phonetics 518014

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 2 –Segmental Features

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
Highest score of the activity: 110 points
The activity starts on: Monday, February The activity ends on: Sunday, March 19,
20, 2023 2023
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcome:
Solve oral and writing exercises about the segmental features of the English sounds.
The activity consists of:

Step 1:
Go to the Learning Environment and in the Course Contents and Bibliographic
References for Unit 1, read Chapter Two: The Mechanism of Speech Sounds.
In Introductory Phonetics and Phonology of English. (pp. 5-12)
read Chapter 3: The Articulation of English Sounds. In Introductory Phonetics and
Phonology of English. (pp. 15-20

Step 2:
Go to the Learning Environment and in the Course Contents and Bibliographic
References for Unit 1, check the content of the OVA Articulatory Sound System, and
develop the exercises. Finally, take screenshots of your answers.

Step 3:
Go to the Learning Environment, intermediate moment, in the folder of the activity
guide evaluation rubric – Unit 1 – Task 2 – Segmental, open the word document
named Workshop 1 - Segmental - Practical Exercises and develop the exercises
individually according to the readings of the course.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

- Check the Course Agenda to organize your time.

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 - Check all available forums.
- Verify the dates of the Web Conferences so that you can plan your participation
accordingly.
- Verify your tutors’ synchronous attention by Skype.

In the Learning Environment, you must:

- Check the Course Contents and Bibliographic References for Unit 1
- Download the Syllabus of the course to actively read.
- Go to the discussion forum for the task and get familiar with your collaborative
group.
- Participate in the forum to get feedback from e-mates and tutors.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

- Upload a PDF file with the task’s individual evidence. Identify your file as
follows: 518014 - Task 2 - Your Full Name.pdf
Evidence of individual work:
The individual evidence to be submitted is:

A PDF file named 518014 - Task 2 – Your Full Name.pdf with the following pages
1. Cover page
2. Screenshots
3. Practical exercises
4. APA References (Different from the ones provided in the course if you use
other sources of information for your answers)
Evidence of collaborative work:
No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

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2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidences to Submit

For Individual evidence, consider the following

Students must deliver one PDF document, with practical exercises and screenshots.
• 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 on 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 the 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.

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3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Individual

Evaluation moment: Intermediate Unit 1
The highest score in this activity is 110 points
First evaluation High level: The student answers the exercises according to the
criterion: course readings, following the specifications and
recommendations in the activity guide and rubric, and
Students answer worksheet.
assertively If your work is at this level, you can get between 16 points
exercises based on and 20 points
the course readings.
Average level: The student answers the exercises, but these
are not according to the readings, nor follows all the
This criterion recommendations and specifications of the activity guide and
represents 20 rubric, and worksheet.
points of the total
of 110 points of If your work is at this level, you can get between 12 points
the activity. and 15 points

Low level: The student does not solve any practical exercise, or
the answers are not according to the course readings.

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

and 11 points
Second evaluation High level: The student adds a screenshot per answer from the
criterion: VLO exercises and they show the correct development of the
exercises.
Students solve the If your work is at this level, you can get between 21 points
VLO exercises and 30 points
correctly.
Average level: The student does not add all the screenshots of
the VLO exercises and they do not show the correct development
This criterion of the exercises.
represents 30
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 15 points
of 110 points of and 22 points
the activity.

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 Low level: The student does not add any screenshots of the
development of the VLO exercises.

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

points and 14 points
Third evaluation High level: All the practical exercises are correct, showing a
criterion: good understanding of the features involved in the production of
the English sounds.
Students If your work is at this level, you can get between 48 points
understand and 60 points
accurately the
segmental features Average level: Some practical exercises are wrong, showing a
of the phonetic poor understanding of the segmental features of the sound
symbols. production.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 36 points
This criterion and 47 points
represents 60
points of the total Low level: The student does not solve any practical exercise,
of 110 points of or the answers are not according to the course readings.
the activity.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 35 points