SACE Stage 2 Portuguese (continuers) case studies
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Portuguese (continuers) is a Stage 2 subject offered within the South Australian Certificate of Education, the senior secondary qualification administered by the SACE Board of South Australia. It sits in the board's suite of continuers-level language subjects, which are designed for students who have already built a substantial foundation in the language - typically through earlier schooling in Portuguese - and who wish to extend their literacy, communication skills and intercultural understanding in that language during their final years of secondary study. The SACE Stage 2 Portuguese (continuers) case studies are 5 cases and about 2,129 words.
1The Oral Presentation That Wasn't Recorded
Ana is a Year 12 Portuguese continuers student at a SACE school. Her school-assessed oral presentation, worth 20% of her internal grade, was scheduled for Tuesday.
498 words, about 2 min2Group Interaction: One Student Dominates
Four students complete a school-assessed interactive task in Portuguese: a 10-minute group discussion on whether social media harms teenagers. The rubric rewards initiating ideas, responding to others, sustaining the exchange, and range of language.
433 words, about 2 min3The Predicted Grade Versus the Moderation Sample
A teacher has submitted school assessment marks for a Portuguese continuers cohort of nine students. The top student, Clara, received 94/100 overall internally.
406 words, about 2 min4Illness, Extension, and the External Examination
Rui is a Portuguese continuers student whose external examination is in three weeks. He misses two weeks of school with a confirmed illness and returns with a medical certificate.
365 words, about 2 min5Plagiarism in a Written Response
A school-assessed written response in Portuguese requires students to write a 300-word opinion piece on an environmental issue, using at least two sources. The teacher notices that Sofia's piece contains a sentence identical to a phrase from a website she cited, unquoted and unacknowledged, and that the structure closely follows the source article with synonyms swapped.
427 words, about 2 min