13 July 2018
Notice 039/18
Amendments have been made to the English as an Additional Language General Senior Syllabus 2019.
Text selection
The text selection guidance for Units 1 and 2 has been clarified to state that students must study one complete play and one complete prose text as part of the school-based selection of three texts from the categories indicated.
Unit objectives
Unit 1 objective 1 has been amended. It no longer specifies particular genres as a focus for the unit. Assessment decisions are school-based across Units 1 and 2.
Unit 2 objectives 1, 4 and 11 have been amended. They no longer specify particular genres as a focus for the unit. Assessment decisions are school-based across Units 1 and 2.
Summative internal assessment 1 (IA1): Examination — analytical written response
The specifications have been clarified to acknowledge that students may be responding to a question or a task.
The conditions have been clarified to state that students may bring in 200 words of quotations from the studied text/s, signed by the teacher, rather than a clean copy of the text.
The instrument-specific marking guide has been amended to include an additional characteristic in the 1-mark performance level descriptor. This change has been made for each of the three criteria.
Summative internal assessment 2 (IA2): Extended response — persuasive written response
The instrument-specific marking guide has been amended to include an additional characteristic in the 1-mark performance level descriptor. This change has been made for each of the three criteria.
Summative internal assessment 3 (IA3): Extended response — imaginative spoken/multimodal response
The order of the characteristics for the Knowledge application criterion has been changed in the instrument-specific marking guide to reflect the order of the assessment objectives.
The instrument-specific marking guide has also been amended to include an additional characteristic in the 1-mark performance level descriptor. This change has been made for each of the three criteria.
Summative external assessment (EA): Examination — analytical extended response
Assessment objectives 1 and 6 have been clarified to include responsiveness to the unseen question or task as part of the objectives.
Subject matter
Unit 4 Topic 2: Critical responses to literary texts has been amended to better define the subject matter in ‘Text in contexts’, ‘Language and textual analysis’ and ‘Responding to and creating texts’.
The English as an Additional Language General Senior Syllabus 2019 (v1.3) and associated resources are available in the QCAA Portal. The syllabus is also available on the QCAA website.
More information
Lisa Bottomley, Learning Area Manager (English and Languages)
Email: EnglishandLanguages@qcaa.qld.edu.au
Telephone: (07) 3120 6129
- Last reviewed:
- 25 July 2018
- Last updated:
- 13 July 2018
