WACE Hindi Second Language ATAR study guide
WACE Hindi Second Language ATAR · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The WACE Hindi: Second Language ATAR is a Western Australian senior-secondary course and external examination for students in Years 11 and 12 who are learning Hindi as a second language. It is administered within the Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) framework by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA), the statutory body responsible for curriculum, assessment, standards and certification of student achievement in Western Australia. The course is designed for candidates whose first language is not Hindi and who have typically begun studying it at senior secondary level. Assessment is organised around three broad areas: responding to texts in Hindi through listening, reading and viewing; creating texts in Hindi through speaking and writing; and applying language and cultural knowledge in context. The WACE Hindi Second Language ATAR study guide has 3 sections and about 1,014 words.
01Responding to Texts in Hindi: Listening, Reading and Viewing
You must show you can extract meaning from spoken, written and multimodal Hindi and respond accurately in English or Hindi as instructed. The concepts to master are: identifying main idea versus supporting detail; recognising the purpose, audience and tone of a text; inferring meaning from context when a word is unfamiliar; understanding cohesive devices (pronouns, connectives such as lekin , isliye , phir bhi ); and interpreting register (formal aap versus informal tum / tu ) as a clue to relationships.
364 words, about 2 min02Creating Texts in Hindi: Speaking and Writing
You produce coherent Hindi for a stated purpose, audience and format: a message, email, diary entry, short talk or discussion. Markers reward range of vocabulary and sentence structures, accuracy (gender agreement, postpositions, verb forms, word order), and appropriateness of register and format conventions.
331 words, about 2 min03Language and Cultural Knowledge in Context
You apply knowledge of Hindi grammar and of cultural conventions to interpret and produce language appropriately. Grammatical areas include case marking, verb conjugation, compound verbs, honorifics and sentence types.
319 words, about 2 min