This user-friendly guide assesses students' proficiency in vocabulary selection and interpersonal language across various activities. With clear criteria and scoring, educators can provide constructive feedback to support students' language development.
This marking rubric is to be used alongside the ‘Vocabulary Selection Assessment’.
Experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit the topic
Investigate how interpersonal language choices vary depending on the context, including the different roles taken on in interactions
Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context
Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose
Communicates with a range of people in informal and guided activities demonstrating interaction skills and considers how own communication is adjusted in different situations
Identifies how language use in their own writing differs according to their purpose, audience and subject matter
Communicates effectively by using interpersonal conventions and language to extend and elaborate ideas for social and learning interactions
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context
Understand the use of vocabulary about familiar and new topics and experiment with and begin to make conscious choices of vocabulary to suit audience and purpose