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The background speakers level languages are designed for students who have a background in the language and who have had more than 1 year's education in a country where the language is spoken.
In Russian (background speakers) students develop intercultural communication skills through examining relationships between language, culture, and identity and reflecting on the ways in which culture is created, expressed and communicated through language. They develop their capability to communicate, interact, and negotiate meanings within and across languages and cultures. Students clarify, extend, and develop their ideas and opinions on the prescribed themes and contemporary issues, and reach reasoned conclusions through critical engagement with a diversity of sources and perspectives.
Russian (background speakers) is a nationally assessed language.
Credits: 20
Learning Area: Languages
Assessment and reporting in the SACE is based on the central partnership between the SACE Board and the school for the quality of SACE assessment. Assessment in both SACE Stage 1 and Stage 2 subjects emphasises the important place of teacher judgement about the quality of student learning against a subject’s performance standards.
This judgement is supported by comprehensive systems of quality assurance.
Further details of the policies upon which these documents are based are available on the policy pages of the website.
Assessment Reports and Past Examinations
Please note that 2008, 2009, and 2010 assessment reports and examinations relate to the former SACE curriculum, taught for the last time in 2010. Please refer to the 2012 subject outline for details of current assessment requirements.
Support materials for Stage 2 subjects to be taught in 2012 include: annotated learning and assessment plan exemplar; learning and assessment plan checklist; guidelines for teachers; learning and assessment plan pro formas; annotated assessment tasks and student responses (that model assessment decisions in at least one assessment type)
Grading of Exemplar Materials
When a whole assessment type is exemplified a grade level, A+ to E– is shown. As individual tasks represent only one part of a full assessment type they are not graded.
