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HSC Languages Extension
Marking Guidelines – Oral examination

Applies to:

  • Arabic Extension
  • Chinese Extension
  • French Extension
  • German Extension
  • Indonesian Extension
  • Italian Extension
  • Japanese Extension
  • Modern Greek Extension
  • Spanish Extension

Monologue

Outcomes assessed: H1.1, H1.2

MARKING GUIDELINES
Criteria Marks
  • Presents and develops a sophisticated, coherent argument
  • Demonstrates breadth and depth in the treatment of relevant ideas and information
  • Communicates confidently and fluently with correct intonation and pronunciation
  • Communicates with a high level of grammatical accuracy, and breadth and sophistication of vocabulary and sentence structure
5
  • Presents and develops a coherent argument
  • Demonstrates breadth and some depth in the use of relevant ideas and information
  • Communicates effectively, with some degree of fluency and authenticity
  • Communicates with a range of vocabulary, language structures and complex sentences, but with some inaccuracies of expression or syntax
4
  • Attempts to present and develop a coherent argument
  • Supports the argument with a range of relevant examples
  • Communicates with some degree of fluency, but with repetition and inaccuracies in grammar and vocabulary
3
  • Attempts to present an argument using some relevant information or ideas with limited fluency of presentation
  • Communicates using simple sentences and language structures and a limited vocabulary with pauses and errors
2
  • Communicates some relevant information or ideas with pauses and repetitions
  • Communicates using simple sentences and language structures, set formulae, limited vocabulary with evidence of English syntax and vocabulary
1
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