Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric
Step 1 - Introduction to main terms

1. General Description of the Course

Faculty or School of education

Academic Unit
Academic Level Professional
Academic Field Disciplinary Formation
Course Name Introduction to Linguistics
Course Code 518017
Course Type Theoretical Retake Yes ☒ No ☐
Exam
Number of Credits 2

2. Description of the Activity

Type of Number of
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ 2
Activity: Weeks
Evaluation
Initial ☒ Intermediate ☐ Final ☐
Moment:
Environment to Submit the
Total Score of the Activity:
Activity: Monitoring and Evaluation
25
Environment
Starting Date of the
Deadline of the Activity:
Activity:
September 5, 2019
August 23, 2019.
Competences to Develop:
It’s the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully
conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating
information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience,
reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and
action.
It entails the examination of those structures or elements of thought
implicit in all reasoning: purpose, problem, or question-at-issue;
assumptions; concepts; empirical grounding; reasoning leading to
conclusions; implications and consequences; objections from
alternative viewpoints; and frame of reference
Information management

It is defined as the ability to locate information, filter it and organize it

in order to select the required information, to present it in a suitable
way for its use and to evaluate both the information itself and the
sources and methods used to obtain it.

Performance that the student must demonstrate:

• Critically analyzes and evaluates information and its sources;
• selects the required information and uses it efficiently to accomplish
a specific task;
• identifies missing information or unreliable information when
analyzing a situation or problem;
• identifies the economic, legal and social impact that implies the use
of information and manages it in an ethical and responsible manner

Analytical and synthetic reasoning

It covers the type of actions carried out systematically to understand a

complex situation and derive it in simpler parts, establishing logical
relations between them (causal or conditional). The fundamental
characteristic of this type of thinking is its linear nature, step by step,
and that who develops it is capable of reproducing it and presenting it
to others with full awareness of the information it handles, and the
processes, procedures and operations carried out. It is oriented to the
solution rather than the statements of the problem.
This type of reasoning, along with creative thinking, is closely linked to
thinking aimed at solving problems.
To favor the deployment and development of this competence,
complex problematic situations that require the definition of a
decomposition and simplification strategy to address them are
particularly appropriate.

Performance that the student must demonstrate:

• decomposes a complex situation into simple elements and identifies
the relationships between them;
• identifies causal relationships and deduces logical conclusions;
• proceeds systematically to consider different alternatives;
• elaborates a coherent reading of a situation from different
information elements.

Topics to Develop:
Understanding basic concepts about linguistics and Language.

Steps, Phase or Stage of the Learning Strategy to Develop

Pre-task: at this time is required to make an introduction to the topic
and task.
This stage will be developed individually by answering five questions
and creating three questions with its answers based on the video
“Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain” By Steven
Pinker.

Activities to Develop
1. Watch the video “Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the
Brain” By Steven Pinker found in the Course Contents, UNIT 1, in the
Knowledge Environment.

2. Once you have understood and internalized the contents, answer

the following five questions:

2.1. When people wants to define Language, it is common that they

easily confuse it with other concepts such as grammar, written
language or thought; in the video, Professor Pinker talks about it,
please, explain in your words, how or why Language is not exactly
those other things.

2.2. In a very concise form and according to the video, say what
language is.

2.3. According to the video, please explain what concept is developed

with the famous Noan Chomsky’s phrase “Colorless green ideas sleep
furiously”.

2.4. What is the basic explanation for the fact that a person speaks a
foreign language with a specific accent?
2.5. Despite computational linguistics have had great advances, what
have been some typical linguistic difficulties to computers process
human language?

3. Create three more questions and give their respective answers also
based on the video.

The information has to be based on the video, if you want to go in

depth in your answers you must include references.

The activity will be delivered in the Evaluation and

Environme Monitoring Environment. The Forum will be
nts for the A for available in the Collaborative Environment,
Developme although, you are not required to participate in the
nt of the Collaborative forum to develop this task, the director of
Activity the course encourage you to do it and increase your
comprehension at the interaction.
Individual:
A 3 A pdf document with the answers to the questions
proposed and, your own questions with its answers.
Products to Your document has to include references from the
be video (minutes indication) suggested for this task and
Submitted other sources if needed.
by Students Collaborative:

No No collaborative task.

3. General Guidelines for the Collaborative Work

Collaborative learning is a strategy that allows

students to work together in order to achieve a
Planning of common goal. Accordingly, the collaborative
Activities for the work proposed for the course is based on a
Development of structured and planned process that includes
Collaborative individual and group activities, as well as
Work interaction and socialization in the virtual
classroom.
1. Explore the syllabus of the course.
 2. Make several readings of the activity guide
and the evaluation rubric for each of the units of
individual and collaborative work.
3. All the activities that are carried out for the
development of the activity should be reflected
within the course through the different media
and especially in the forum of each activity,
since the interaction; if they work by Skype or
other means they should evidence it in the
forum with screenshots.
4. Be in constant communication with the
colleagues and tutor during the development of
activities.
5. In case of any concern, ask the tutor or the
colleagues with time, using the various
communication channels arranged in the course.
6. Enter the contributions with time for the
Timely feedback from peers and tutor.
7. Establish a schedule of activities within each
forum and a table of roles and functions for
meet during the development of each activity.
Different roles are proposed within the
collaborative environment, which allow an
appropriate space for academic growth and
effective interaction that promotes learning and
interpersonal relationships. Every student will
take up one of these roles for the development
of the course assignments and can only be
Roles to Be changed if decided by the group members.
Performed by the
Facilitator: Makes sure that every voice is
Student in the
heard and focuses work around the learning
Collaborative
task. Provides leadership and direction for the
Group
group and suggests solutions to team problems.
Recorder: Keeps a public record of the team's
ideas and progress. Checks to be sure that ideas
are clear and accurate.
Time keeper: Encourages the group to stay on
task. Announces when time is halfway through
and when time is nearly up.
 Planner: States an action for the completion of
the task at hand according to the instructions
and course agenda.
Task monitor: Looks for supplies or requests
help from the teacher when group members
agree that they do not have the resources to
solve the problem.
Compiler: Puts together the final product and
includes the work done only by those who
participated on time. Informs the student in
charge of alerts about people who did not
participate and will not be included in the final
product.
Reviser/Editor: Makes sure the written work
follows all the criteria established in the activity
guide.
Roles and Duties
Evaluator: Evaluates the final document to
for the
ensure it follows the evaluation criteria of the
Submission of
rubric and informs the student in charge of
Products by
alerts about any changes that need to be made
Students
before delivering the product.
Deliveries: Student in charge of informing
about the dates set for presenting each task and
delivering the final product according to the
course agenda. Also informs other students that
the final product has been sent.
Alerts: Informs group participants about any
news in the work being done and reports the
delivery of the final product to the course tutor.
All references considered for this activity have to
References
be cited using APA Style
Students must be aware of the risks and
penalties in case of plagiarism.

Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the

Plagiarism Policy
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 that the student 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.

To learn how to properly cite all your tasks, see

the following:
BibMe. (n.d.). APA Citation Guide. Retrieved
from http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/apa/

4. Evaluation Rubric

Evaluation Rubric
Step 1 - Introduction to main terms

Activity Collaborative
Individual Activity ☒ ☐
type: Activity

Evaluation
Initial ☒ Intermediate ☐ Final ☐
moment

Evaluated Performance levels of the individual activity

Score
items High score Average score Low score
 The given answer The given answer The given answer
shows that the partially shows that does not show that
student explored the student explored the student explored
and analyzed the and analyzed the and analyzed the
reference for unit reference for unit 1. reference for unit 1.
1. The The information The information does
Checking
information shows partially shows that not show that the 10
References
that the student the student student understood pts
understood the understood the the concepts and
basic concepts concepts and masters the topics.
and masters the masters the topics.
topics.

(up to 10
(up to 5 points) (up to 1 point)
points)

The answers and The answers and

The answers and the
the creation of the creation of
creation of questions
questions show questions show a
show any
clearly partially
comprehension of
comprehension of comprehension of
Document basic concepts, of 10
basic concepts, of basic concepts, of
contents the nature of pts
the nature of the nature of
language and
language and language and
linguistics.
linguistics. linguistics.
(up to 10
(up to 5 points) (up to 1 point)
points)
The document is The document does The document does
organized, well not fulfil some of not fulfil most of
presented; it these criteria: is these criteria: is
contains titles, organized, well organized, well
subtitles and presented; it presented; it
coherent contains titles, contains titles, 5 pts
Document paragraphs. The subtitles and subtitles and
organization text has no coherent coherent
serious linguistic paragraphs. The paragraphs. The text
errors and is text has no serious has no serious
uploaded in the linguistic errors and linguistic errors and
 Evaluation is uploaded in the is uploaded in the
Environment. Evaluation Evaluation
Environment. Environment.
(up to 5 points) (up to 2 points) (up to 1 point)

25
Final score
Points