SACE Stage 2 Chinese (continuers) case studies
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Chinese (continuers) is a Stage 2 subject in the South Australian Certificate of Education, listed by the SACE Board among its Stage 2 language offerings. It is designed for students who have already developed substantial Chinese language skills - typically through prior study of Chinese as a second language - and who want to extend their reading, writing, listening and speaking in Chinese while building intercultural understanding. The SACE Stage 2 Chinese (continuers) case studies are 5 cases and about 2,533 words.
1The Speaking Task That Wasn't Recorded
At a metropolitan school, a Year 12 Chinese continuers student, Lin, completes the external oral examination in early September. Her school's recording device is old; the audio file is corrupted and only the first 40 seconds survive.
509 words, about 3 min2Group Presentation Marks and a Dominant Partner
In a school assessment task worth 20% of the grade, three Chinese continuers students - Wei, Anna and Priya - deliver a 12-minute group presentation on environmental policy in China. The task sheet requires each student to speak for roughly equal time and to be assessed individually on language and content.
534 words, about 3 min3The Exchange Student's Variant Chinese
A new student, Mei, joins a Year 12 Chinese continuers class after three years in Taiwan. Her written Chinese is fluent and her vocabulary is broad, but she consistently uses traditional characters and some Taiwan-standard usages.
498 words, about 2 min4Research Project Sources Under Scrutiny
For a school-assessed research project, a student, Daniel, submits a 1,500-character report on changing family structures in urban China. His bibliography lists six sources: two are Chinese news articles, one is a government statistical yearbook, one is a blog post with no author or date, one is a Wikipedia page, and one is a personal interview with his aunt, who lives in Shanghai.
503 words, about 3 min5Predicted Grades and the Moderation Sample
A Chinese continuers teacher has finished marking a class of 14 students. Marks range from 62 to 94, with a cluster of nine students between 80 and 88.
489 words, about 2 min