Essential English Assessment Objectives
Across
- 3. make an idea or situation plain or clear by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts; provide additional information
- 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)
- 6. knowledgeable; learned; having relevant knowledge; being conversant with the topic
- 7. the group of readers, listeners or viewers that the writer, designer, filmmaker or speaker is addressing
- 8. texts capable of changing someone’s ideas, opinions or beliefs;
- 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
- 11. a system of communication chosen as the way to transmit a message; the choice of language mode may be written, spoken/signed, nonverbal,
- 12. create or put together (e.g. an argument) by arranging ideas or items;
- 19. the features of language that support meaning (e.g. sentence structure, noun group/phrase, vocabulary, punctuation, figurative language, framing, camera angles)
- 20. Choose in preference to another or others; pick out
Down
- 1. acceptable; suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, circumstance, context,
- 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
- 4. spoken, print, graphic or electronic communications with a public audience; often involve numerous people in their construction
- 8. a genre’s distinguishing structures, features and patterns that relate to context, purpose and audience
- 10. operate or put into effect; apply knowledge or rules to put theory into practice
- 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)
- 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
- 15. distinguished or different from others or from the ordinary; noteworthy
- 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
- 17. having a natural or due agreement of parts; connected; consistent; logical; orderly; well-structured and makes sense; rational,
- 18. characteristics, qualities, philosophical and emotional stances; for example, moral principles or standards, often shared with others in a cultural group