Level/Marks PERFORMANCE INDICATIVE CONTENT CHARACTERISTICS These are examples of the ways students’ work might exemplify the performance characteristics in the question. They indicate possible content and how it can be treated at different levels. Level 5 Students will: Students are likely to: Demonstrate an Explore heterogeneity of 17-20 individual overview of female/male speakers issues Explain gender similarities Assess views, hypothesis approaches, Explore other kinds of interpretations of language use than spoken linguistic issues interaction Assess dominance and difference approaches explicitly Level 4 Students will: Students are likely to: Identify different Illustrate effect of situation and 13-16 views, approaches and use interpretations of Illustrate effect of other linguistic issues characteristics of speakers: age, class, ethnicity Explore different interpretations of male/female conversational behaviours: e.g. tags as showing uncertainty or wielding power Illustrate research on gender and other variables: e.g. effect of status by Woods. AS Example Response There is a debate in the linguistic field that spoken interactions between men and women are characterised by miscommunication. There are linguistics such as Lakoff and Tannen who claim that there is difference in how men and women use language. This leads to the argument that perhaps it is miscommunication that forms a major characteristic between men and women’s spoken interactions. There are others however, such as Cameron, who disagree and claim that differences are exaggerated and focused on too much, for reasons other than language.
Level/Marks PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS INDICATIVE CONTENT These are examples of the ways students’ work might exemplify the performance characteristics in the question. They indicate possible content and how it can be treated at different levels. Level 5 17-20 Students will: Demonstrate an individual overview of issues Assess views, approaches, interpretations of linguistic issues Students are likely to: Explore heterogeneity of female/male speakers Explain gender similarities hypothesis Explore other kinds of language use than spoken interaction Assess dominance and difference approaches explicitly Level 4 13-16 Students will: Identify different views, approaches and interpretations of linguistic issues Students are likely to: Illustrate effect of situation and use Illustrate effect of other characteristics of speakers: age, class, ethnicity Explore different interpretations of male/female conversational behaviours: e.g. tags as showing uncertainty or wielding power Illustrate research on gender and other variables: e.g. effect of status by Woods. AS Example Response There is a debate in the linguistic field that spoken interactions between men and women are characterised by miscommunication. There are linguistics such as Lakoff and Tannen who claim that there is difference in how men and women use language. This leads to the argument that perhaps it is miscommunication that forms a major characteristic between men and women’s spoken interactions. There are others however, such as Cameron, who disagree and claim that differences are exaggerated and focused on too much, for reasons other than language.