Year 8: LOTE (FRENCH, GERMAN, CHINESE, INDONESIAN) (S2)
Grade Descriptors
| Common Test | Listening and Speaking | Reading | Writing | |
| A | Comprehensive understanding of written text, linguistic patterns and intercultural knowledge. Basic factual information about daily life and personal world was extracted, manipulated and applied accurately to multiple choice and short answer questions. | Comprehensive identification of basic factual information from spoken texts about daily life and his personal world, using very accurate sound/tone discrimination. Very accurate and confident interaction with others by manipulating modelled language; culturally appropriate body language and gestures. | Well developed ability to read passages aloud and to apply learned pronunciation and intonation. Could accurately extract basic factual information from written text about daily life and his personal world. | Advanced and creative manipulation of new and recycled language knowledge to express himself proficiently in culturally appropriate language appropriate for the task, audience and setting. Accurate and consistent editing of original work. |
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| B | Well-developed understanding of written text, linguistic patterns and intercultural knowledge. Basic factual information about his daily life and personal world was extracted, manipulated and applied to questions. Some responses lacked detail or contained minor inaccuracies. | Comprehensive identification of basic factual information as above using accurate sound/tone discrimination, although some points not fully understood. Accurate and confident interaction with others by manipulating modelled language, but with minor errors in body language and gestures. Some responses needed more attention to detail. | Well developed ability to read passages aloud and to apply learned pronunciation and intonation. Could extract basic factual information from written text about daily life and his personal world with minor linguistic errors. Some responses needed more attention to detail or contained irrelevancies. | Well developed manipulation of new and recycled language knowledge to express himself in culturally appropriate language appropriate for the task, audience and setting, but content lacked some detail. Comprehensive editing of original work despite some unidentified linguistic errors. |
| C | Satisfactory understanding of written text, linguistic patterns and intercultural knowledge. Responses to questions often lacked detail or indicated misunderstandings about some course content and skills. | Satisfactory identification of basic factual information as above, but with some misunderstandings. Some errors in sound/tone discrimination Some inconsistencies in adaptation of language and gesture as above. | Satisfactory ability to read passages aloud and to apply learned pronunciation and intonation. Could, with some errors, extract basic factual information from written text about daily life and his personal world. | Satisfactory manipulation of new and recycled language knowledge to express himself in culturally appropriate language. Content lacked some detail or relevance. Satisfactory editing of original work, but with some inaccuracies. |
| D | Limited understanding of written text, linguistic patterns and intercultural knowledge. many inaccuracies and substantial misunderstandings about course content and skills. | Limited understanding of basic factual information as above, with limited sound/tone discrimination. Limited confidence in interactions with others and substantial errors in choice of body language and gestures. | Limited ability to read passages aloud and to apply learned pronunciation and intonation. Could, with substantial errors, extract basic factual information from written text about daily life and his personal world. | Limited manipulation of new and recycled language knowledge to express himself in culturally appropriate language. Content lacked detail and relevance. Limited editing of original work, with substantial errors. |
| E | Minimal understanding of written text, linguistic patterns and intercultural knowledge. major inaccuracies and very limited or no understanding of the course content and skills. | Minimal understanding of basic factual information as above. Showed very limited sound/tone discrimination. Minimal confidence in interactions with others and major inaccuracies in choice of body language and gesture. | Minimal ability to read passages aloud and to apply learned pronunciation and intonation. Could, with only minimal ability, extract basic factual information from written text about daily life and his personal world. | Minimal manipulation of new and recycled language knowledge to express himself in culturally appropriate language. Content contained only minimal relevance and detail. Minimal editing of original work, with major inaccuracies. |
