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The Spoken Language Endorsement: GCSE English Language (9-1), Support session

Clare Haviland, English Subject Advisor8 December 2015, updated 26.5.16 & 15.11.17 (reflecting feedback from summer 2017)





Session Agenda

• Spoken Language endorsement (SLE): the requirements

• Planning: integrating the SLE into your teaching

• Assessing• Recording; selecting and submitting your

sample• Frequently asked questions• Questions and answers





Guidance available

GCSE English Language 9-1 Specification

Administrative Support Guide for the SLE 2017-2018

JCQ Instructions for conducting non-examination assessments

JCQ access arrangements

JCQ Information for candidates: Non-examination Assessments

(NEA)

Spoken Language standardising materials (student exemplars with commentaries)You may email [email protected] for a CD version.

http://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/GCSE/English Language/2015/specification-and-sample-assesment/9781446932414_GCSE_2015_L12_EngLang_Issue-2.pdf

http://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/GCSE/English Language/2015/forms-and-administration/GCSE-English-Language-Administrative-Support-Guide.pdf

https://www.jcq.org.uk/exams-office/non-examination-assessments/in

https://www.jcq.org.uk/exams-office/access-arrangements-and-special-consideration

https://www.jcq.org.uk/exams-office/information-for-candidates-documents

http://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/english-language-2015.coursematerials.html#filterQuery=category:Pearson-UK:Category%2FTeaching-and-learning-materials&filterQuery=category:Pearson-UK:Document-Type%2FExemplar-material

mailto:[email protected]





The requirements





Students must demonstrate their presentation skills in a formal setting, listen and respond to questions and feedback, and use spoken English effectively.

Presentation:The spoken language presentation may take a variety of forms, including:(a) a speech or talk by a student, followed by questions from the audience or (b) a formal debate or dialogue, such as an interview where the student is able to prepare extended responses to questions or prompts which have been shared in advance, followed by questions from the audience.

In all cases, the presentation should be prepared and last no longer than 10 minutes, including questions and answers.

Format of presentation





Students must give their presentations to an audience, which must always include the teacher.

The size and composition of the audience should be determined by the teacher, in discussion with the student. However, where the audience is the teacher only, the presentation and dialogue should be designed in such a way that it could have a potentially wider audience than just one person (e.g. it replicates a television interview).

Audience





Planning: integrating the SLE into your teaching





Please see the ‘suggested outline of activities’ in the Admin Support Guide (p. 8-11).

Submit your sample by 15 May 2018 for the certification of GCSE English Language (9-1) in summer 2018.

You can carry out your SLE assessments at any time between now and then.

The student exemplars in our standardising materials provide examples of topics and tasks.

Please note that any examples of topics/tasks given here are simply suggestions rather than ‘Edexcel approved topics/tasks’.

When and what?

http://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/GCSE/English Language/2015/forms-and-administration/GCSE-English-Language-Administrative-Support-Guide.pdf

http://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/english-language-2015.news.html?article=/content/demo/en/news-policy/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/english/spoken-language-endorsement-inter-board-guidance





Candidates may perform better if choosing the topic is collaborative

(rather than imposed by the teacher).

Some topics may be self-limiting: talking about a holiday might not

allow the expression of sophisticated ideas/vocabulary needed for

a dictinction.

Subjects which involve a degree of controversy tend to provide

able candidates with the best scope. Good examples included ‘The

Scourge of People Trafficking’, ‘What is “post-truth”?’, ‘How to

encourage children to read’.

Presenting on poems or texts which students have studied

elsewhere in their English studies did not prove a particularly

successful approach in the first submission in summer 2017.

What makes a good topic?





You may like to present students with a choice of possible topics/tasks or students can generate these themselves.

Any topic chosen should contain enough inherent complexity to allow a student to meet the assessment criteria of the grade they are aiming at.

Consider what your approach to audience and recording will be:

Are you intending to record in a whole-class setting, with one student performing after another? Or will students come on a one by one basis to be recorded?

These decisions may impact on the format of the presentation.

Points to bear in mind when organising the topics that students will present on





Assessing





Prior to assessing students, carry out a departmental standardisation process by watching the student exemplar clips and marking them.

If you wish, you can carry out the same exercise with students.

Getting familiar with the marking criteria & the standard

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Go through the ‘dos and don’ts’ of formal presentations with students.

Model a presentation yourself and ask students to grade you using the assessment criteria and to explain the reasons for the grade they have awarded.

Having decided upon the tasks and the arrangements for audience and recording, your students will:

• Prepare their presentation, including the questions and answers: this may include preparing a Powerpoint, or notes cards.

• Ideally, have the opportunity to practise their presentation with an audience.

Planning and preparation





Decide on your approach to recording: will all students be recorded? Will you record, for example, 15 students at each grade (based on your grade predictions).

Students present on their topics and are recorded. Prior to recording, test your equipment to ensure that the audio-visual quality is sufficient to allow assessment and that where more than 1 student is performing at the same time, they are wearing name badges and are identifiable.

Listen to your students’ presentations, marking each using the assessment record sheet, or making notes, so that you can complete the sheet later.

Save your recordings using the method described on p.11 of the specification.

Carrying out the assessments






General CriteriaTo be awarded a Pass, Merit or Distinction a Learner must –• be audible, and • use Spoken Standard English which, for the

purposes of the spoken language assessment, means that a Learner must –

be intelligible, and • generally use language appropriate to the

formal setting of the presentation.

Marking Criteria





Marking Criteria

Pass Merit Distinction

In addition to the general criteria, to be awarded a Pass a Learner's performance in his or her spoken language assessment must meet all of the following criteria –• expresses straightforward

ideas/information/ feelings, • makes an attempt to

organise and structure his or her presentation,

• makes an attempt to meet the needs of the audience, and

• listens to questions/feedback and provides an appropriate response in a straight forward manner.

In addition to the general criteria, to be awarded a Merit a Learner's performance in his or her spoken language assessment must meet all of the following criteria –• expresses challenging

ideas/information/ feelings using a range of vocabulary,

• organises and structures his or her presentation clearly and appropriately to meet the needs of the audience,

• achieves the purpose of his or her presentation, and

• listens to questions/feedback responding formally and in some detail.

In addition to the general criteria, to be awarded a Distinction a Learner's performance in his or her spoken language assessment must meet all of the following criteria –• expresses sophisticated

ideas/information/feelings using a sophisticated repertoire of vocabulary,

• organises and structures his or her presentation using an effective range of strategies to engage the audience,

• achieves the purpose of his or her presentation, and

• listens to questions/feedback, responds perceptively and if appropriate elaborates with further ideas and information.





Review your students’ results using their assessment record sheets/and or recordings and finalise your sample.

Save the recordings of the selected sample onto a CD or USB and make an additional copy to retain. Check the audio-visual quality of both.

When instructed to do so, send your clearly labelled CD/USB to your monitor along with your ‘Head of centredeclaration’ and store your copy of the sample securely.

Finalising your sample and transferring the recordings to CDs or USBs





Frequently asked questions





1. Can a student make more than one attempt at their presentation?

Yes, they can.

2. Can a student use a PowerPoint presentation or notes?

Yes, they can, but please see the Monitor’s report on this from summer 2017.

3. How long should the presentation last?

A maximum of 10 minutes, including questions and answers. If students are assessed in groups, each student still needs to speak for around 10 minutes.

Frequently asked questions

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4. Does the teacher need to be part of the audience?

Yes, they do.

5. Can the audience be the teacher only?

Where the audience is the teacher only, the presentation and dialogue should be designed in such a way that it could have a potentially wider audience than just one person (e.g. it replicates a television interview).

6. Can I assess students remotely, for example via Skype?

Yes. Please email [email protected] for the requirements of assessing in this way.

Frequently asked questions cont’d






7. Do I need to record all my students?

You need to record a sample of 30 students (if you have a cohort of more than 30) or all your students (if your cohort is less than 30 students).

8. Who chooses the sample?

You do. You are required to send 10 examples each of pass, merit and distinction. Please see p. 13 of the specification on how to make up a sample where you do not have 10 distinctions, for example.







9. What paperwork do I need to complete?

1 assessment record sheet per student Head of centre declaration

Send to the monitor:Assessment record sheets for the students in the sampleHead of centre declarationPrint out of all grades submitted on Edexcel onlineRecordings of students in the sample

10. What will appear on students’ GCSE English Language certificates?

‘Spoken Language Endorsement’ under the GCSE English Language result, with a grade of ‘Not Classified’, ‘Pass’, ‘Merit’, or ‘Distinction’.






11. When do I submit the recordings?

By 15 May 2018 for the May/June 2018 exam series. Please do not submit your recordings until you have been instructed to do so.

12. Can students carry forward their SLE result if they resit?

Yes, they may (providing they achieve P, M or D). Enter students carrying forward for 1EN0 T. No other details are needed. Edexcel will contact your exams officer if we need further details to trace the previous grade.






13. Exemptions?

Students who have suitable medical evidence of a condition which

would prevent them from completing the SLE can apply for an

exemption by sending this jcq form with the medical evidence to

[email protected].

Only students with conditions such as selective mutism are likely to

be granted an exemption.

Deaf/hearing-impaired candidates may not use BSL & will need an

exemption.

When entering grades on Edexcel Online, candidates who have an

exemption should be given the grade ‘NC’, which will appear on

their certificate.


https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jcq.org.uk/exams-office/access-arrangements-and-special-consideration/forms/application-for-an-exemption&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEUpLQiAUtwGcspMvdizd8gq5vS5Q






Contact information

English Subject Advisor, Clare Haviland:

• [email protected]

• Tele: 020 7010 2183

•English Subject Page

•English forum

•Twitter: @PearsonTeachEng


http://qualifications.pearson.com/en/subjects/english.html

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