SACE Stage 2 Korean (beginners) flashcards
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- School assessment weighting
- In SACE Stage 2 Korean (Beginners), school assessment contributes 70% of the final grade and is made up of Interaction and Text Production tasks marked by the teacher against performance standards.
- External assessment weighting
- The external examination contributes 30% of the final SACE Stage 2 Korean (Beginners) grade and is set and marked by the SACE Board rather than by the school.
- Assessment Type 1: Interaction
- A school-assessed component requiring students to sustain spoken and written exchanges in Korean, responding to prompts and maintaining communication appropriate to audience and purpose.
- Assessment Type 2: Text Production
- A school-assessed component in which students create written or multimodal texts in Korean, such as letters, diary entries, or blog posts, for specified audiences and purposes.
- Performance standards A to E
- Five achievement levels describing the quality of student work; teachers award grades holistically by matching evidence to the standards rather than applying percentage cut-offs.
- Hangul orthography requirement
- Submitted school work must be written in Hangul; Romanisation is not accepted as a substitute, and incorrect spelling or spacing is penalised under language accuracy criteria.
- Spacing (띄어쓰기) accuracy
- Correct word spacing in Korean sentences is part of assessed language accuracy; errors in 띄어쓰기 are counted alongside grammar and vocabulary mistakes in school tasks.
- Authenticity and drafts
- SACE rules require work to be the student's own; teachers may collect planning notes and drafts, and unauthorised use of translation tools or copying is treated as plagiarism.
- Teacher feedback limits
- Teachers may give feedback on drafts but must not correct or rewrite the student's Korean text, because the final submission must reflect the student's own language ability.
- Honorific verb endings
- Korean verbs change with the honorific and polite systems; using the wrong ending (for example 습니다 versus 어요) with a given audience is an accuracy error.
- Prescribed themes
- The SACE Korean (Beginners) course is organised around three prescribed themes with related topics; school tasks and the external examination draw on these themes.
- Intercultural understanding criterion
- Assessment rewards students who compare Korean-speaking communities with their own culture, showing awareness of practices, values, and perspectives rather than listing facts.
- Moderating school assessment
- School grades are checked through SACE moderation, in which samples of student work are reviewed against performance standards to ensure consistent judgement across schools.
- Text types in school tasks
- Students produce specified text types such as letters, diary entries, blog posts, or conversations; each text type has conventions of layout, register, and formulaic expressions.
- External exam format
- The SACE Stage 2 Korean (Beginners) external examination is a written paper assessing listening, reading, and writing, with some responses in English and some in Korean.
- Dictionary use in exam
- Dictionaries and electronic translators are not permitted in the external examination, so vocabulary and grammar must be recalled from the course.
- Listening text playback
- In the external examination, recorded Korean listening texts are played a limited number of times stated in the instructions; students may take notes during playback.
- Extended writing task
- The external examination includes an extended response in Korean of roughly 200–300 words in a specified text type such as a letter, diary entry, or blog post.
- Marking for meaning and accuracy
- Korean-language exam answers are assessed both for how clearly the message is communicated and for accuracy of grammar, vocabulary, and Hangul spelling.
- Reading comprehension in exam
- Exam reading tasks present Korean texts at beginners level, and students answer questions in English or Korean by locating and interpreting specific information.
- Intercultural response in exam
- External examination tasks may ask students to compare Korean-speaking communities with their own culture, demonstrating intercultural understanding in an extended response.
- Beginners-level vocabulary range
- External assessment assumes vocabulary and structures from the beginners course only; unfamiliar words are glossed or inferable from context in examination texts.
- Formal and informal register
- Korean distinguishes formal polite (합니다 style) from informal polite (해요 style); exam writing must match register to the stated audience and relationship.
- Text type conventions
- Recognising conventions such as greetings, sign-offs, and sequencing in letters, diaries, and blogs helps students both read exam texts and produce their own.
- Time management in exam
- The external paper allocates marks across listening, reading, and writing; dividing time according to mark value prevents the extended writing task being left unfinished.
- Numbers: Sino-Korean vs native
- Korean uses Sino-Korean numbers for dates, money, and phone numbers and native Korean numbers for counting and age; choosing the wrong set is an accuracy error.
- Particles 은/는 and 이/가
- Topic particle 은/는 marks what a sentence is about, while subject particle 이/가 marks the grammatical subject; confusing them affects meaning in exam sentences.
- Verb stem and endings
- Korean verbs are cited in dictionary form ending in 다; removing 다 gives the stem to which polite endings such as 어요/아요 or 습니다 are attached.
- Question forms in Korean
- Politeness level determines question endings, for example 습니까? in formal polite and 어요?/아요? in informal polite, with rising intonation in speech.
- Past tense formation
- The past polite ending is formed with 았어요/었어요 after the stem, chosen by vowel harmony; the formal past uses 았습니다/었습니다 in written exam responses.
- Connecting clauses
- Conjunctions such as 그리고, 그래서, but also verb connectors -고 and -서 link ideas; varied connectors raise the communication quality of extended writing.
- Interpreting marks per task
- Each exam section states its mark value; allocating effort proportionally and answering every item, including short-answer items, maximises the total score.