1. Unit: Pronunciation
Johanny Alvarado Quiles
ETEL 602
Avalúo de los Cursos en Línea
Profesora. Laylannie Torres
CONVERSATIONAL
ENGLISH COURSE FOR
ADULTS
4. Formative Evaluation
•Diagnostic Activity
• Students will be provided with a list of tongue twisters.
Each student will choose a tongue twister from the list.
They will listen carefully to the pronunciation used. Then,
the student will record himself / herself saying the chosen
tongue twister using any podcast tool. (Suggested tools
Voki, Audacity, Podomatic). This podcast must be
published in their course blog for evaluation.
5. Formative Evaluation
•Activity # 2
•Students will watch the following videos on
Pronunciation:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuzS6uXR0Hk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaVq4_BeBD4
6. Summative Evaluation
•Activity # 3
•After watching the videos, through a Discussion
Board / Chat meeting the students will answer the
following questions:
• What is the importance of having a good pronunciation in
English?
• Explain 3 problems having an incorrect pronunciation may
cause in a conversation?
• Reply to at least two classmates publications.
7. Summative Evaluation
•Final Activity
•Applying the correct use of pronunciation, student
will visit a public place and perform a life interview to
a native English Speaker.
•This interview must be recorded by the students.
•The students will transform the interview into a video
and uploaded to YouTube.
•This video must also be published in their course blog
for evaluation.
8. Evaluation / Assessment tool
• For all the activities, Rubrics will be used to evaluate the students’
academic progress. The main rubrics are as follows:
• Attendance and Participation 5 pts.
• Pre - Test
• Learning Activities 10 pts.
• Videos
• Discussion Board Participation 15 pts.
• Responses are accurate and promote discussion
• Blog Creation 25 pts.
• Includes all required elements (rubric will be sent to students)
• Final Project Development 45 pts.
• Interview
• Includes all required elements (rubric will be sent to students)
Total 100 pts.
9. Reflection
In an online course technology plays a very important role.
Based on the fact that the teacher and student are
separated by space and time Web 2.0 tools were used in
the development of this course. Technology truly enriched
the course and made better the formative and summative
activities. In simple words, watching an online video,
record a podcast, or upload a video to Youtube would not
be possible without technology. Technology has given the
teacher and the student as well the opportunity to be
creative, highly motivated, collaborative and over all to
think out the box.
10. References
Accurate English. (2011, May 16). English Pronunciation
– vowel changes in stressed and unstressed
syllables. [video file] Retrieved from https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaVq4_BeBD4
Pawel, M. (2011, Aug 11). Problems with English
pronunciation FUNNY. [video file] Retrieved from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=OuzS6uXR0Hk.
