Essential English Assessment Objectives

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Across
  1. 3. make an idea or situation plain or clear by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts; provide additional information
  2. 5. the environment in which a text is responded to or created; can include the general social, historical and cultural conditions in which a text is responded to and created (the context of culture) or the specific features of its immediate social environment (context of situation)
  3. 6. knowledgeable; learned; having relevant knowledge; being conversant with the topic
  4. 7. the group of readers, listeners or viewers that the writer, designer, filmmaker or speaker is addressing
  5. 8. texts capable of changing someone’s ideas, opinions or beliefs;
  6. 9. ideas, beliefs or attitudes about such things as gender, religion, ethnicity, youth, age, disability, sexuality, social class and work that are taken for granted
  7. 11. a system of communication chosen as the way to transmit a message; the choice of language mode may be written, spoken/signed, nonverbal,
  8. 12. create or put together (e.g. an argument) by arranging ideas or items;
  9. 19. the features of language that support meaning (e.g. sentence structure, noun group/phrase, vocabulary, punctuation, figurative language, framing, camera angles)
  10. 20. Choose in preference to another or others; pick out
Down
  1. 1. acceptable; suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, circumstance, context,
  2. 2. the use of language and detail in a text appropriate for its purpose, audience and context; deliberate choices when constructing a text in relation to the language, subject matter, etc
  3. 4. spoken, print, graphic or electronic communications with a public audience; often involve numerous people in their construction
  4. 8. a genre’s distinguishing structures, features and patterns that relate to context, purpose and audience
  5. 10. operate or put into effect; apply knowledge or rules to put theory into practice
  6. 13. the ways in which information is organised in different types of texts (for example, layout, headings, leads, subheadings, overviews, introductory and concluding paragraphs, sequencing, topic sentences, cause and effect)
  7. 14. features of vocabulary, syntax and grammar that bind different parts of a text together; examples include connectives, ellipses, synonyms; in multimodal texts, examples include establishing shots in films and icons for links on web pages
  8. 15. distinguished or different from others or from the ordinary; noteworthy
  9. 16. the way a reader/viewer is positioned by a text or how a particular ideology is embedded in a text, for example, a feminist perspective
  10. 17. having a natural or due agreement of parts; connected; consistent; logical; orderly; well-structured and makes sense; rational,
  11. 18. characteristics, qualities, philosophical and emotional stances; for example, moral principles or standards, often shared with others in a cultural group