SACE Stage 2 Italian (continuers) flashcards
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- Folio
- A school assessment type combining an oral interaction and a written interaction in Italian, assessing students' ability to communicate in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts.
- Presentation
- A school assessment task in which students deliver a spoken or multimodal presentation in Italian, assessed on content, structure, and language accuracy and range.
- Response to Text
- A school assessment task requiring a written response in Italian to a studied text, demonstrating comprehension and personal interpretation supported by evidence from the text.
- Investigation
- A school assessment task involving research on a cultural or social topic, presented in Italian with a clear research question, sources, and conclusion.
- Text Production
- A school assessment task requiring students to produce a written text in Italian of a specified genre, assessed on communication, content, and language quality.
- Performance Standards
- Descriptions of five levels of achievement (A to E) against which student work is judged in SACE Stage 2 Italian.
- Moderation
- The process by which the SACE Board compares school-assessed evidence against the Performance Standards to ensure consistent grading across schools.
- School assessment weighting
- School assessment contributes 70% of the final Stage 2 Italian grade, built from five assessment types completed during the year.
- Oral interaction
- A spoken task in the Folio, typically 5–7 minutes, assessed on interaction strategies, fluency, pronunciation, and grammatical accuracy in Italian.
- Written interaction
- A supervised written task in the Folio, assessed on register, vocabulary range, and grammatical control in Italian.
- Supervised conditions
- Rules under which certain school assessment tasks must be completed, ensuring the work is the student's own and unauthorised aids are excluded.
- Genre conventions
- The structural and stylistic features expected of a particular text type, such as a letter, article, or review, used to assess Text Production.
- Feedback requirement
- Schools must provide feedback on each assessment task before the next one, allowing students to improve their performance.
- Source record
- A log of sources and drafts kept by students for Investigation and Text Production tasks, providing evidence of original work.
- Plagiarism penalty
- A penalty applied under SACE rules when a student uses another person's work or unauthorised aids in school assessment.
- External assessment weighting
- The external examination contributes 30% of the final Stage 2 Italian grade and is assessed by the SACE Board.
- Oral examination
- An externally assessed spoken examination of approximately 10–15 minutes, including conversation and discussion of a studied topic, marked on fluency, range, and accuracy.
- Written examination
- An externally assessed examination of approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including listening, reading, grammar, and writing sections in Italian.
- Listening section
- A part of the written examination in which students hear Italian texts played a limited number of times and answer questions in Italian or English as directed.
- Reading section
- A part of the written examination requiring identification of main ideas, specific details, and inference from Italian texts, with answers in Italian.
- Writing section
- A part of the written examination requiring production of a text in Italian of a specified type, approximately 200 words, marked on communication, content, and language.
- Grammar in context
- An examination section testing Italian structures such as verb tenses, pronouns, and prepositions within meaningful sentences and short texts.
- Register
- The level of formality in language use, including the Italian tu/Lei distinction, which students must control in both oral and written tasks.
- Authentic text
- Genuine or lightly adapted Italian material used in listening and reading sections, drawn from real-life contexts and topics.
- Holistic marking
- A marking approach in which examiners judge the overall quality of a response against the Performance Standards rather than counting individual errors.
- Inference
- A reading skill requiring students to draw conclusions not stated directly in the Italian text, tested in the reading section.
- Unseen text
- A text not previously studied, presented in the examination, to which students must respond and express a personal viewpoint in Italian.
- Examination timing
- The written examination lasts approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes including reading time; students must allocate time across listening, reading, and writing.
- Dictionaries
- Reference works not permitted in the written examination; students must rely on their own knowledge of Italian vocabulary and structures.
- Assessor pair
- Two trained assessors conduct the oral examination to ensure fairness and consistent application of the Performance Standards.
- November examination
- The external examination is held in November, and its results contribute to SACE completion and ATAR calculation.
- Personal viewpoint
- A response in which students express and justify their own opinion in Italian about a topic or text presented in the examination.