NSSCAS Khoekhoegowab First Language 8190 case studies
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NSSCAS Khoekhoegowab First Language 8190 is the Advanced Subsidiary stage of Namibia's senior secondary certificate, intended for candidates who already use Khoekhoegowab (Nama/Damara) as a first or strong home language and want to take it further than the ordinary senior secondary course allows. It is the qualification that universities, colleges and employers look at when competence in Khoekhoegowab matters: admission to humanities and education programmes, language teaching, translation and interpreting, journalism, and heritage or community media work. The NSSCAS Khoekhoegowab First Language 8190 case studies are 5 cases and about 2,754 words.
1Marking 'own words' and click orthography in the same mock paper
At a Windhoek secondary school the Grade 12 Khoekhoegowab First Language group of 36 candidates writes the mock Paper 1 (Reading comprehension and language structures). Question 1 is a 380-word passage about a village water-point committee.
489 words, about 2 min2Word-limit penalties and a misread data table
A Grade 12 class of 32 writes a summary and information-transfer task. The summary passage is 260 words on a community garden project, and the instruction reads 'Summarise in not more than 70 words'.
638 words, about 3 min3Directed writing: register, borrowing and an inverted ranking
The task is directed writing: a formal letter of complaint to the Regional Director of Education about the shortage of Khoekhoegowab reading material at the school. The limit is 150–180 words and the letter carries 12 marks - content 4, organisation and format 4, language 4.
464 words, about 2 min4A variant ending, suspected collusion and a plot-summary essay
The literature paper requires a 250–300 word essay on the prescribed collection of Khoekhoegowab oral narratives. Question 3 asks how the ending of one prescribed narrative resolves the conflict.
589 words, about 3 min5Two assessors, a memorised talk and an accommodation
It is oral assessment day: 28 candidates, two assessors (one Nama-speaking, one Haiǁom-speaking), four criteria at 5 marks each. Candidate P delivers a polished three-minute prepared talk on 'My village', fluent and well organised, but when asked two unprepared follow-up questions repeats sentences from the talk and cannot respond when a question is rephrased.
574 words, about 3 min