QCAA Tamil (SEE) case studies
QCAA Tamil (SEE) · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Senior External Examination (SEE) is a Queensland Curriculum & Assessment Authority (QCAA) program of external examinations for senior secondary students. According to the QCAA site, the SEE area provides syllabuses, a handbook, reports and past testpapers, and it distinguishes information for Year 12 students from information for adult students. The QCAA Tamil (SEE) case studies are 5 cases and about 2,250 words.
1The Missing Register in a Bilingual Letter
A Year 12 student drafts a letter to a Tamil community association in Brisbane asking for a 400 sponsorship of a school cultural night. The student is a fluent home speaker of Tamil but has only written formal Tamil twice.
472 words, about 2 min2Dialect and the Listening Task
A listening passage for a practice assessment is a phone message from a speaker raised in a rural district. The speaker uses a regional pronunciation and some local vocabulary that differ from the standard variety used in the school's textbook.
461 words, about 2 min3Translating a Proverb in a Speech
A student writes a two-minute Tamil speech for a school assembly about helping neighbours after a flood. To open, she inserts a Tamil proverb about a small act of kindness outweighing a grand promise.
474 words, about 2 min4Script Choice in a Community Poster
Students design a poster for a Tamil cultural festival at a community hall. The committee asks for the poster to be 'in Tamil', but the audience includes second-generation teenagers who speak Tamil at home and read it slowly, and older community members who read Tamil fluently.
425 words, about 2 min5Correcting a Grandparent's Story
For an oral history task, a student records a 6-minute interview with her grandmother about migrating to Australia in the 1970s. In the transcript, the grandmother uses forms the student's textbook marks as 'colloquial' (e.g., reduced verb endings, a regional word for 'market'), and twice uses a word the student believes is 'wrong'.
418 words, about 2 min