Assessment Type 3: Language Study

For a 10‑credit subject, students complete one oral, written, or multimodal language study.

For a 20‑credit subject, students complete two oral, written, or multimodal language studies.

For a language study, students identify and analyse aspects of language used in one or more texts (e.g. a newspaper, magazine, television extract, TED talk). Examples of the aspects of language that could be studied include:

• the language used to report a global event (e.g. achievement in sport, pop phenomenon, event)
• the language used in a popular television format (e.g. reality television program, talent show, soap opera, 24‑hour news broadcast)
• the language used to reflect sociocultural aspects such as age, gender, race identity (e.g. stereotyping in films or magazines)
• the language used to persuade others (e.g. advertising, political speech, film trailer)
• use of technical language (e.g. the language used in a real‑estate advertisement, food review, travel brochure, or scientific article)
• the language used to express appreciation of an object, process, or performance (e.g. customer review, thank‑you letter).

Students may present their language study in written, oral, or multimodal form. Examples include:

• an annotated text(s) with additional commentary
• an oral presentation
• a written essay or report
• a tutorial
• a video
• an appropriate ICT (e.g. applications, podcasts, slideshow presentations)
• an online collaboration (e.g. shared online blog, forum, discussion board).

A written text should be a maximum of 800 words; an oral presentation should be a maximum of 5 minutes; a text in multimodal form should be of equivalent length.

For this assessment type, students provide evidence of their learning primarily in relation to the following assessment design criteria:

• communication
• comprehension
• analysis.