2023 AQA GCSE FRENCH 8658/SF Paper 2 Speaking Foundation Tier Mark scheme including Guidance for Role-plays June 2023 [VERIFIED]

2023 AQA GCSE FRENCH 8658/SF Paper 2 Speaking Foundation Tier Mark scheme including Guidance for Role-plays June 2023 [VERIFIED] GCSE FRENCH 8658/SF Paper 2 Speaking Foundation Tier Mark scheme including Guidance for Role-plays June 2023 Version: 1.0 Final *236G8658/SF/MS* MARK SCHEME – GCSE FRENCH – 8658/SF – JUNE 2023 Mark schemes are prepared by the Lead Assessment Writer and considered, together with the relevant questions, by a panel of subject teachers. This mark scheme includes any amendments made at the standardisation events which all associates participate in and is the scheme which was used by them in this examination. The standardisation process ensures that the mark scheme covers the students’ responses to questions and that every associate understands and applies it in the same correct way. As preparation for standardisation each associate analyses a number of students’ tests. Alternative answers not already covered by the mark scheme are discussed and legislated for. If, after the standardisation process, associates encounter unusual answers which have not been raised they are required to refer these to the Lead Examiner. It must be stressed that a mark scheme is a working document, in many cases further developed and expanded on the basis of students’ reactions to a particular paper. Assumptions about future mark schemes on the basis of one year’s document should be avoided; whilst the guiding principles of assessment remain constant, details will change, depending on the content of a particular examination paper. Further copies of this mark scheme are available from MARK SCHEME – GCSE FRENCH – 8658/SF – JUNE 2023 Contents Page 4 Part One Mark Scheme 6 Section 1: Role-play 9 Section 2: Discussion of photo card 11 Section 3: General conversation 15 Appendix 1: Subject content (Themes) 16 Appendix 2: Speaking Score Sheet 17 Appendix 3: Symbols for annotating Speaking Score Sheet 18 Appendix 4: Marking of photo card – guidance notes 26 Appendix 5: Role-plays – General Principles 27 Appendix 6: Photo cards – General Principles 28 Appendix 7: Photo cards – Guidance on paraphrasing 29 Part Two Mark Scheme 29 Section 1: Role-plays – specific June 2023 mark schemes 3 MARK SCHEME – GCSE FRENCH – 8658/SF – JUNE 2023 Speaking Tests – Foundation tier Part One Mark Scheme Principles of marking The Speaking Tests are marked in accordance with the assessment criteria provided later in this document. No allowance can be made for poor teacher conduct of the tests. You can only assess what you hear. If a candidate requires a prompt or explanation of any kind, including the provision of an item of obviously unknown vocabulary, this must be given clearly and audibly by the teacherexaminer without stopping the recording. Level of response marking instructions Level of response mark schemes are used in the Photo card and General conversation tasks. The criteria are broken down into levels, each of which has a descriptor. The descriptor for the level shows the average performance for that level. Step 1 Determine a level Start at the lowest level of the mark scheme and use it as a ladder to see whether the student performance meets the descriptor for that level. The descriptor for the level indicates the different qualities that might be seen in the student’s performance for that level. If it meets the lowest level then go to the next one and decide if it meets this level, and so on, until you have a match between the level descriptor and the performance. With practice and familiarity, you will find that for better performances you will be able to quickly skip through the lower levels of the mark scheme. When assigning a level, you should look at the overall quality of the performance and not look to pick holes where the student has not performed quite as well as the rest. If the performance covers different aspects of different levels of the mark scheme, you should use a ‘best fit’ approach for defining the level and then use the variability of the performance to help decide the mark within the level, ie if the response is predominantly level 3 with a small amount of level 4 material it would be placed in level 3 but be awarded a mark near the top of the level because of the level 4 content. Step 2 Determine a mark Once you have assigned a level, you need to decide on the mark. The exemplar materials used during standardisation will help. You can compare the student’s performance with the examples marked by the Lead Examiner to determine if it is the same standard, better or worse than the examples. You can then use this information to allocate a mark for the performance. You may well need to go back through the test as you apply the mark scheme to assure yourself that the level and the mark are appropriate. 4 MARK SCHEME – GCSE FRENCH – 8658/SF – JUNE 2023 The test as a whole Each candidate’s speaking test consists of three parts, completed in this order: Part 1 Role-play – 2 minutes approximately (15 marks) Part 2 Discussion of photo card – 2 minutes at Foundation tier (15 marks) Part 3 General conversation – 3–5 minutes at Foundation tier (30 marks) Total marks at Foundation tier = 60 Nine role-plays and photo cards will be set at each tier in each series for French, German and Spanish and six for small entry languages. Marks will be allocated in the following way at Foundati