Mātauranga Māori constitutes concepts and principles that are richly detailed, complex, and fundamental to Māoridom. It is important to remember that the practice of these are wider and more varied than their use within the proposed NCEA Achievement Standards and supporting documentation.

We also recognise that the cultures, languages, and identities of the Pacific Islands are diverse, varied, and unique. Therefore the Pacific concepts, contexts, and principles that have been incorporated within NCEA Achievement Standards may have wide-ranging understandings and applications across and within the diversity of Pacific communities. It is not our intention to define what these concepts mean but rather offer some ways that they could be understood and applied within different subjects that kaiako and students alike can explore.

The intent of the Standard

This Achievement Standard assesses the student’s ability to demonstrate understanding of spoken German related to everyday contexts. Students will find and combine information, identify key points, and use context to understand texts.

This Achievement Standard calls on students to combine communicative, linguistic, and cultural knowledge with general linguistic strategies to decode texts. Students will demonstrate their understanding of spoken German developed over the year to make meaning of vocabulary, grammar, and syntax with varying levels of precision.

Spoken German refers to short audio text types that the student may encounter in their everyday life. Examples of texts include short conversations, announcements, instructions, advertisements, and voice messages.

Students may respond to a combination of texts, for example, an announcement at a train station and a conversation about a trip, or an announcement at a supermarket and a conversation about shopping.

This Achievement Standard draws on the following Big Ideas:

• Languages express meaning through unique forms of communication
• Language, culture, and identity are inextricably linked
• Learning languages encourages diverse ways of thinking, doing, and being.

This Achievement Standard draws on the following Significant Learning:

• be exposed to, practise, and enjoy experimenting with a wide range of spoken, written, and visual communication in German
• show increasing awareness of differences and connections between German and their first language(s) and develop the ability to navigate between them
• explore language commonly used to express personal information, ideas, and opinions in everyday contexts with reference to events or experiences in the present, as well as the past or future
• engage with and make meaning of a variety of text types, featuring connected sentence and paragraph-level expression and a range of very high frequency vocabulary
• develop a foundational awareness of and use key linguistic building blocks and patterns of language
• acquire simple linguistic strategies and basic knowledge of how to use resources to make meaning from unfamiliar language.

Making reliable judgements

Students must demonstrate understanding of the context, audience, and purpose of the spoken texts presented in the assessment. At all levels, they need to apply knowledge of German including vocabulary and grammar specified in the Level 1 Vocabulary List, as well as cultural references, to understand the context, audience, and purpose of spoken German texts.

Students achieving at higher levels will show a deeper understanding of the spoken texts. In their response, they will provide comprehensive detail and connect information, ideas, and opinions. They will also demonstrate increasing levels of precision with fewer inconsistencies impacting overall communication.

Collecting evidence

The method of this assessment is an examination administered during the end-of-year examination period. The provision of the tasks and grading of evidence will be carried out by NZQA.

Students will answer questions in English or te reo Māori, relating to the information provided.

Refer to the External Assessment Specifications for further information.

Possible contexts

Everyday contexts relate to events or experiences that are familiar and relevant to the student and may reflect German-speaking communities, te ao Māori, the Pacific, and Aotearoa New Zealand.

Examples include:

• food
• daily routines
• around town
• sports.

Standard Exclusions

This Standard has one or more exclusions, or Standards that assess the same or similar learning. These Standards are excluded against one another to prevent assessing the same learning twice. You can only use credits gained from one of these standards towards your NCEA qualification.

Find out more about the NCEA Level 1 Exclusions List.