SACE Stage 2 Romanian (continuers) flashcards

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SACE performance standards

Descriptions of the quality of learning expected at each grade level. They set out what a student's evidence of understanding, analysis, and creation of meaning should look like in Romanian.

School assessment weighting

The proportion of the final subject grade awarded by the school. For Stage 2 languages this usually covers oral interaction and a written folio, with the remainder from external assessment.

Moderation

The process by which school-assessed marks are reviewed against the SACE standards so that judgements are comparable across schools. Annotated student work and task sheets may be requested.

Folio of text responses

A collection of school-assessed responses to Romanian written, spoken, or multimodal texts. It demonstrates comprehension, interpretation, and critical analysis rather than simple summary.

Interactive oral task

A school-assessed spoken task in which the student sustains a conversation or discussion in Romanian. It is judged on fluency, accuracy, range, pronunciation, and interactional skill.

Task sheet

The document specifying a school assessment task's audience, purpose, text type, length, conditions, and due date. Responses must meet these specifications to score well.

Text type specification

The required form of a written response, such as article, blog, email, letter, report, review, or speech. Each carries expected conventions of structure and register.

Register

The level of formality in language, shaped by audience and purpose. Romanian distinguishes informal address with tu from formal address with dumneavoastră, affecting verb forms and pronouns.

Assessment integrity

The requirement that submitted work be the student's own. Unacknowledged translation-tool use, copying, or exceeding permitted drafting support constitutes a breach that can attract penalties.

Evidence of drafting

Drafts and plans retained as part of the assessment record. They show the development of a response and are used in moderation to confirm authorship and process.

Capabilities in language learning

The SACE capabilities (literacy, numeracy, ICT, critical and creative thinking, personal and social capability, ethical understanding, intercultural understanding) embedded in language tasks, especially intercultural understanding.

Intercultural understanding

Knowledge of Romanian-speaking cultures and the ability to compare them with the student's own. It is assessed through analysis of cultural references, values, and perspectives in texts.

External written examination

The centrally set and marked examination, usually worth about half the subject grade. It contains comprehension of Romanian texts and extended written production under timed conditions.

Comprehension section

The part of the external examination in which students respond to written and spoken Romanian texts. Questions test literal meaning, inference, tone, and purpose.

Inference question

A question requiring a conclusion not stated directly in the text. Answers must be supported by textual evidence such as word choice, tone, or implied attitude.

Listening playback conditions

The rules governing recorded Romanian passages in the examination. Material is typically played a limited number of times, often twice, with note-taking permitted during playback.

Extended writing task

A production task in the external examination requiring a sustained response in a specified text type, audience, and purpose, assessed on relevance, organisation, range, and accuracy.

Criterion: relevance and depth

An external marking criterion rewarding full engagement with the task, development of ideas, and depth of argument rather than superficial coverage of the prompt.

Criterion: organisation and cohesion

An external marking criterion rewarding logical structure, paragraphing, and linking devices such as în primul rând, pe de altă parte, prin urmare, and în concluzie.

Criterion: range and accuracy

An external marking criterion rewarding varied vocabulary and complex grammar used correctly, including tense, mood, agreement, and case forms in Romanian.

Dictionaries in examinations

Reference works are generally not permitted in the external examination. Students infer unfamiliar Romanian vocabulary from context, word roots, and cognates.

Oral examination

A spoken assessment, externally assessed or moderated, in which the student discusses prepared topics and their investigation with an assessor, demonstrating fluency and interactional skill.

Investigation

A student-chosen inquiry into an aspect of Romanian-speaking culture or society. It supplies content for discussion and demonstrates intercultural understanding in the oral assessment.

Grade scale A+ to E

The reporting scale for SACE subjects. Each grade corresponds to a described standard of achievement, with A+ representing the highest level of evidence.

Authentic text

Material produced for a real Romanian-speaking audience rather than for learners, such as news articles, interviews, or literary extracts. Examination texts may be authentic or adapted.

Adapted text

An authentic Romanian text simplified for assessment purposes, for example by glossing difficult vocabulary or shortening sentences, while retaining the original purpose and viewpoint.

Conjugation of a fi

The Romanian verb 'to be' in the present: eu sunt, tu ești, el/ea este, noi suntem, voi sunteți, ei/ele sunt. It functions as a copula and as an auxiliary.

Compound perfect tense

Formed with the auxiliary a avea plus the past participle: am mers, ai citit, a scris, am plecat. It expresses completed past actions and is frequent in narrative writing.

Subjunctive with să

Romanian uses să plus a verb form for wishes, intentions, and after expressions of desire: vreau să merg, trebuie să plecăm. The third-person forms often match the indicative.

Formal address dumneavoastră

The polite second-person pronoun used with third-person verb forms: dumneavoastră sunteți, dumneavoastră aveți. It is required in formal letters, emails, and reports.

Noun gender in Romanian

Romanian nouns are masculine, feminine, or neuter. Neuter nouns take masculine forms in the singular and feminine forms in the plural, e.g. un scaun, două scaune.

Definite article suffix

Romanian marks definiteness with an enclitic article attached to the noun: om becomes omul, casă becomes casa, and copil becomes copilul. This differs from English word order.