Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa

BA in ELT
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Tutor: Adriana Salazar Gómez

EVALUATION PROCEDURES

 A maximum of 10 absences are allowed during the course. (two-hour class = two absences)
 If your reach 10 absences during the course there will be a penalization of 1 point from your final grade and if
you pass the maximum allowed you will fail automatically with no opportunity for an extraordinary exam.
 Student grades for the course will be based on 3 assignments, two exams and a class participation. You must
complete ALL items to obtain a final grade.

EVALUATION CRITERIA
 Grades will be assigned based on the following term composite scores:

Grade instruments Points possible % of final

grade
Assignment 1 10 10%
Research paper and quiz
Assignment 2 10 10%
Research paper and quiz
Assignment 3 10 10%
Class participation 10 10%
portfolio (with 20 items) 20 20%
Exam 1 20 20%
Exam 2 20 20%
100%

RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT 1
This assignment should be sent in by_________. It should be typed, using Times New Roman size 11 font, also make sure
to include your source (s) to avoid plagiarism. Value 10 points (10/100)
Research the following information:
Title : Important People in Language
A Biography that includes their theory on Language
1- Burrhus Frederic Skinner
2- Lev Vygotsky
3- Jean Piaget
4- Noam Chomsky
5- Jerome Bruner

RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT 2

This assignment should be sent by________________. Typed using Calibri 12 font, also make sure to include your
source (s). Value 10 (5/5) points (10/100)
Research the following information:
Title: Stephen Krashen’s hypotheses for 2 nd Language Acquisition
 Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa
BA in ELT
SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Tutor: Adriana Salazar Gómez

RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT 3

This assignment’s dead line is for ________________ . It should be done by using Calibri 12 font , also make sure to
include your source (s). Value 10 points (10/100)
Research the following information:
What is Interlanguage?
And how does interlanguage relate with: Contrastive analysis and Error analysis?