Assessment of EALD: Text Analysis and Language & Literacy Levels

This assignment focuses on the practical application of the DfE(SA) EALD Language and Literacy Levels to assess student work. It involves completing a Text Analysis Sheet, which includes references to levels descriptors and corresponding examples from a student's text as evidence for allocated levels. The assignment requires a justification of the assigned level using the four lenses of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG): Field, Mode, Tenor, and Genre, supported by references to the DfE(SA) EALD Language and Literacy Levels and relevant literature. Additionally, the assignment includes a critical evaluation of the Language and Literacy Levels as a tool in EALD settings.

Text Analysis Sheet
Student Name: ___________________________________
Text analysis
(In this column record both applicable quotations from the
levels descriptors and corresponding examples from the
student text as evidence for the levels you allocate.)
Level
COMPOSING LEARNING AREA
TEXTS
Genre
Using visuals – particularly in
multimodal texts
comparing the city of A with my home town is 4
Written texts … In my home town rich people suffer a lot cosrobbers
take you as a source of money …
5
TEXT KNOWLEDGE
Organisational Structure of learning
area texts
Mode
Text Cohesion
Foregrounding
 Text and paragraph openers
 Text connectives
 Sentence openers
(theme/foregrounding)
 Passive voice
However, it should, not only but also 5
Text Cohesion
Reference:
pronouns, demonstratives and
substitution
I, it,
GRAMMAR KNOWLEDGE
Field
Sentence Structure
 Simple Sentence
 Compound Sentence- linking
conjunctions: and; then; but; so; or
 Complex Sentence
- using binding conjunctions:
because, if, when, after, until,
while, unless, so that, as
- using relative clauses
- using non-finite clauses
Space is cold and is too much hot. 3
Punctuation
 Sentence level
 Basic
WORDS AND WORD
GROUPINGS
Verbs and verb groups
 Doing, sensing, saying, relating
(processes)
 Tense
 Subject/verb agreement
People it, streets are gut wrenching
4

Adverbs, adverb groups/phrases and
prepositional phrases
(circumstances)
Nouns and noun groups / phrases
Plurals and articles (a, an, the)
It, a, the 1
Nominalisation
Tenor
Evaluative Language
(feelings, judgement, evaluation of
things and varying intensity)
Modality
Expressing opinions directly and
indirectly
WORDS KNOWLEDGE
Field
Understanding/using learning area
vocabulary
Subject specific, specialised,
technical
Contextual demands of vocab
choices
Spelling Iss, global warm, 2
adapted from p10 of https://www.education.sa.gov.au/sites/g/files/net691/f/language-and-
literacy-levels-recording-and-tracking.pdf