SACE Stage 2 Language and Culture study guide
SACE Stage 2 Language and Culture · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
SACE Stage 2 Language and Culture is a South Australian Certificate of Education subject that lets students study a target language which is not currently offered through the Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment Framework for Languages (CCAFL) suite. It is designed for students who already have some background and prior knowledge of the language rather than for complete beginners: the SACE Board states that students will have studied the target language for 400–500 hours by the time they complete Stage 2, or hold an equivalent level of knowledge. The subject is flexible in its language coverage; the SACE Board notes that in 2020 students used it to study Nepali, Dinka, Kirundi, Somali and Ukrainian. Study is organised around two equally weighted domains: linguistic knowledge, understanding and skills, and intercultural knowledge, understanding and skills. Topics on this exam: Linguistic knowledge, understanding, and skills and Intercultural knowledge, understanding, and skills. The SACE Stage 2 Language and Culture study guide has 2 sections and about 696 words.
01Linguistic Knowledge, Understanding and Skills
This domain asks you to analyse how language works as a system, using the metalanguage of your target language and of English. You need working control of phonology (sound systems, phonemes, stress, intonation), morphology (roots, affixes, inflection versus derivation), syntax (word order, clause structure, agreement), semantics (denotation, connotation, sense relations such as synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy) and pragmatics (implicature, politeness, register).
355 words, about 2 min02Intercultural Knowledge, Understanding and Skills
This domain assesses your ability to interpret language use within cultural context and to reflect critically on your own positioning. Key concepts include cultural values and norms , traditions and practices , social hierarchies and honorifics , taboo and politeness , high- and low-context communication , directness and indirectness , face and indirect speech acts , and stereotyping versus generalisation .
341 words, about 2 min