Field                   Humanities

 

Revision of Languages Level 1 achievement standards

 

Subfield             Languages

Domain	Id	Subject reference
Indonesian	90101	Languages 1.6
Japanese	90107	Languages 1.6
Spanish	90130	Languages 1.6

 

The Ministry of Education and the Secondary Assessment and Liaison business unit of NZQA have revised the achievement standards listed above that were registered in November 2007.

 

Date new versions published                                                      November 2009

 

Reason for the revision

 

The revision is to ensure that the wording in all the Languages 1.6 standards is consistent.

 

Main changes resulting from the revision

 

The change concerns the wording in explanatory note 5 of the standards.  The sentence "The text(s) must total .... words/kana" must have the word "about" inserted immediately before the number of words/kana.  The intention is that this is guidance on the number of words/kana and they do not have to total to the exact number stated.  This will result in a consistent approach across all the Languages 1.6 standards.

 

ID	Domain	Text in EN 5
90101	Indonesian	The text(s) must total about 120 words.
90107	Japanese	The text(s) must total about 200 kana.  (Kana refers to Japanese phonetic script, eg hiragana and katakana.  Prescribed kanji should be used in appropriate contexts.)
90130	Spanish	The text(s) must total about 120 words.

 

Impact on existing provider accreditations

 

None.

 

Impact on Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP)

 

None.

 

Impact on existing qualifications

 

None.