Guidelines for week 5 assignment
For Week 5 assignment you will develop 2 assessable activities based on oral or written
discourse which will be placed into your future unit lesson plan for key assessment.
1. Two assessable
activities
(oral or written discourse)
2. Rubrics
3. Rationale
(1-2 pages)
4. Justification
Design 2 assessable activities based on oral or written discourse.
Each assessable activity should contain:
a) Target learners;
b) Task type;
c) Task specifications;
d) Task (materials: DCT, role-play prompts, letter…)
Create a rubric for each of the two assessable activities based on
I&C Ch. 15. Choose from the list:
a) Holistic rubric
b) Analytic rubric
P.S: Place the rubrics just after the related activity.
Write a summary description with rationale for your methods of
assessments and rubrics:
a) What are your assessment tools?
b) How did you choose them?
c) Why do you think they are suitable for your learners &
your speech act?
a) Justify your decisions with evidence by citing I&C
b) Include a Reference list in APA format
Assignment Rubric
Below 13
14-15
16-17
18-19
20
One or two
activities are
missing; the
activities are not
assessable or not
related to
pragmatics
Includes two
activities that may
allow some form
of assessment; the
activities are
somewhat related
to pragmatics
Develops or
redevelops two
assessable activities
that relate to the
lesson and that
provide practice for
the pragmatic
strategy
Develops or
Develops or
redevelops two
redevelops two
assessable activities innovative
directly related to assessable
the lesson and that activities directly
provide appropriate related to the
practice for the
lesson and that
pragmatic strategy provide realistic
practice for the
pragmatic strategy
Rubrics
14-15
16-17
18-19
20
Provides two
rubrics that
properly assess
each activity; each
Provides two
rubrics that
properly assess
pragmatic skills in
Provides two
rubrics that
properly assess
pragmatic skills in
Assessable
Activities
Rubrics are
Provides two
missing, unclear, rubrics that assess
or do not address each activity
pragmatic skills
rubric relate to
some aspect of
pragmatics; each
rubric is clear
each activity; each each activity; each
rubric will allow for rubric will allow
ease in grading
for ease in grading
and allow learners
to understand
what is expected
18-19
Rationale
14-15
16-17
20
Reasons for
choices are not
given or are too
general
Comments on
reasons for
choices made in
assessments
Provides some good Provides a strong
reasons for choices rationale for the
made in developing methods used to
assessments
assess
Provides a
convincing
rationale for the
methods used to
assess (including
multiple details)
Justification
14-15
16-17
18-19
20
More
justification is
needed
Provides some
Justifies decisions
justification based made based on
on the concept of course content
pragmatics for
decisions made
Justifies decisions
made based on
target population
and their pragmatic
needs; supports
decisions with
course content
Justifies decisions
made based on
target population
and their
pragmatic needs;
supports decisions
with strong use of
course material
(properly cited)
Overall
Redeveloped
Lesson
14-15
16-17
18-19
20
Not enough
redevelopment
has been done;
the lesson is not
cohesive; some
elements are not
related
Most elements
appear to relate to
the topic of
pragmatics, but
not necessarily
one central
pragmatics topic
Most lesson
elements relate to
one central
pragmatics topic
The new lesson and
assessments are
unified by one
central pragmatics
topic
The new lesson is
cohesive and
innovative; the
lesson focuses on
one pragmatics
concept with wellordered
components and
effective
assessments