Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Code: 551038

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric - Task 1 - Learning About Us

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Independent

Evaluation moment: Initial
Highest score of the activity: 25 points
The activity starts on: Thursday, August The activity ends on: Wednesday, August
17, 2023 30, 2023
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

To reflect about their learning and teaching experience through the creation of a
video introduction.

The activity consists of:

Task 1: Personal Introduction

Each student writes a short personal introduction in the forum. In this video, you
must include your name, age, location, contact number, semester, email address and
three expectations for the course. All the information needs to be written in English
using complete sentences (directly in the forum, no files attached).

Task 2: Answer some questions

Each student answers the following questions:

1. According to the course description, what are your expectations for the course and
what can you do to meet them?

2. According to the contents do you think the course is important for this academic
program? Explain your answer.

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3. According to the course contents, what are the five topics you like the most and
why? Briefly describe the one topic you find more interesting.

4. According to the course contents, how does ESP relate to your language learning
experience?

5. Identify and write the reasons why you consider this course will result helpful for
your teaching competences and professional practice.

Task 3: Video

After sending your personal introduction and answering the questions in the forum,
you are going to create a short video with that information using your webcam or
cellphone. If you wish, you can have support of visual material, but it is mandatory
that your face appears on the video, it must be 3 to 5 minutes long. The quality of
sound and image are to be done the best possible.

After creating the video, you must upload it to an online video repository like
YouTube, Tutv, Google Videos, etc. Once your video is uploaded, post the “Public”
link in the forum (for interaction with peers).

Group interaction
After posting your own video in the forum, comment at least two classmates’ videos.

You need to post your video at least five days before the deadline of this activity, or
no interaction will take place.

Written contributions (personal introductions and answers to questions) and videos

posted three days before the deadline will not be taken into consideration for the
grade of this activity.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

- Check the Course Agenda to organize your time.

- Check the Course News for important information.
- Verify the date of the First Web Conference so that you can plan your
participation accordingly.
- Verify your tutors’ synchronous attention by Teams.

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In the Learning Environment, you must:

- Check the Course Contents and Bibliographic References for Unit 1: Experiences.
- Go to the discussion forum for the task and actively participate with your
collaborative group.
- Give feedback to your e-mates if necessary.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

Upload a PDF file with the individual task.

Identify your file as follows: 551038 - Task 1 - Your full name.pdf

Evidence of independent work:

The independent evidence to be submitted is:

A pdf document uploaded by the evaluation environment following the guidelines

given in this activity guide.

Evidence of group work:

No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidence to Submit

For Independent evidence, consider the following:

1. Presentation cover
2. Personal introduction
3. Answers to questions
4. Introductory video link (it should be published so no permission is required)
6. Screenshots of your comments to your classmates’ videos.
5. References (APA style).

Upload a PDF file with the individual task.

Identify your file as follows: 551038 - Task 1 - Your Full Name.pdf

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: Independent

Evaluation moment: Initial
The highest score in this activity is 25 points
First evaluation
High level: The video includes all required information: self-
criterion:
introduction and 5 questions solved accurately.
The video recording
If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
is complete and
and 5 points.
includes all the
information
Average level: The self-introduction video contains no more
requested in the
than 5 sentences, or the student answered just two or three of
activity guide.
the five questions.

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This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
represents 5 and 3 points.
points of the total
of 25 points of Low level: The video is complete, but it wasn’t posted five days
the activity. before the deadline of the activity, or the student did not send a
video presentation.

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

points and 1 point.
Second evaluation High level: Students’ answers reflect a clear understanding of
criterion: the course’s main concepts.

The presentation If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
includes all the and 5 points.
student's
information and Average level: The presentation does not include all the
clearly answers the student's information and barely answers the questions
questions proposed proposed for this task.
for this task.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
This criterion and 3 points.
represents 5
points of the total Low level: The student does not make the presentation.
of 25 points of
the activity.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 1 point.
Third evaluation High level: Ideas are expressed with ease in proper sentence
criterion: structure and tenses. Spelling and punctuation are accurate as
well.
The student
completes the task If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
in a clear manner and 5 points.
with accurate
grammar and Average level: The student completes the task with some
mechanics. grammar mistakes.

This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
represents 5 and 3 points.
points of the total

5
of 25 points of Low level: It is difficult to understand ideas because of
the activity. grammar mistakes or due to no proper spelling and punctuation.

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

points and 1 point.
Fourth evaluation High level: Pronunciation is clear and easy to understand.
criterion: Speech is fluent and smooth.

The student makes If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
use of the and 5 points.
appropriate
language structures Average level: The student does not use the appropriate
with adequate language structures and pronunciation and fluency are poor.
pronunciation and
fluency. If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
and 3 points.
This criterion
Low level: Speech is very slow, stumbling, nervous, and
represents 5
uncertain, it is difficult to understand because of unclear
points of the total
pronunciation.
of 25 points of
the activity.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 1 point
Fifth evaluation High level: The student participates in the completion of the
criterion: task by following the instructions and time given for this task.

The student If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
participates in the and 5 points.
completion of the
activities according Average level: The student comments on their classmates’
to the instructions work but feedback is not meaningful.
and time allotted for
this task. If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
and 3 points.
This criterion
represents 5 Low level: The student does not comment on their classmates’
points of the total work.
of 25 points of
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
the activity.
and 1 point