Formative task
Student:
Total
Year 9 Chinese Continuer
Listening and Responding
Task Description:
This task requires students to listen and answer questions in English, it mainly to
assess their Chinese listening and understanding skills. The text provided has
complex Chinese sentence structures with a range of vocabularies; such as tense
markers, time phrases, cohesive devices, question words, adjectives and relative
place words. Students are required to identify these items in spoken languages,
and also use their analytical thinking skills to answer the questions. It also requires
students to use their prior knowledge.
Test:
Student will hear the text in Chinese. The text will be played three times; there will
be a 5 minute break between the first and second playing of the text. Students will
have 10 minutes after the third playing of the text.
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D
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Knowledge and understanding
Fully understand the text and linguistic
features in spoken language.
Students are able to fully use their prior
knowledge in their response.
Understand most key ideas and linguistic
features in spoken language.
Students are able to use their prior
knowledge in their response.
Understand some of the key ideas
linguistic features in spoken language.
Students use some of their prior
knowledge in their response.
Understand keywords and very basic
linguistic features in spoken language.
Students able to use limited prior
knowledge in their response.
Understand very basic keywords in
spoken language.
Students unable to use their prior
knowledge in their response.
Interpretation
Key ideas and relevant details are
identified and explained.
Identified a range of linguistic features in
spoken language.
Most of the key ideas and relevant details
are identified and explained.
Most of the key linguistic features in the
text is described.
Some relevant information and linguistic
features from text are identified.
Most keywords are identified in spoken
language.
Keywords and some supporting detail are
identified in spoken language.
One or two basic linguistic features of the
text are identified.
Keywords are identified in spoken
language.
Specific information in the text is
transcribed rather than interpreted.
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