Level 3 Samoan
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mrs L. Sime.
This Year 13 Samoan course teaches the Samoan language to effectively express and justify ideas and opinions through every day and formal situations. Students will learn to use the language in a range of purposes, express thoughts on critical situations and interpret texts.
Students will be able to:
- Communicate information, ideas and opinions
through increasingly complex and varied texts.
- Exploring views, developing and sharing personal
perspectives.
- Engaging/responding to different texts
- Analyse ways the Samoan language is used in
different texts.
- Analyse ways the Samoan culture is organised
for different purpose.
Recommended Prior Learning
It is highly recommended that you already have the conversational language in both writing and speaking to ensure you get the best out of this course. This may have been achieved by speaking and communicating in Gagana Samoa at home with your 'aiga regularly or completing the Level 2 Gagana Samoa course.
If you are unsure if this course if for you, please see Mrs Sime for support.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
1B8 Exercise books
BYOD
Pathway
Students who choose the Level 3 Gagana Samoa course could have the opportunity to take the Samoan Language further into tertiary level. Career pathways for languages can consist of translator/interpreter roles, there are also opportunities for foreign language intelligence roles and language teachers.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
Total Credits Available: 24 credits.
Externally Assessed Credits: 10 credits.
Internally Assessed Credits: 14 credits.
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Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 24
Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.