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Diploma – Assessment 3 - Final Examination

SESSION 2 2021

Unit Code & Name: COMM107 Language as Communication

Examination Time: 3 Hours

Reading Time: 10 Minutes

Total Time: 3 Hours 10 Minutes

The Exam is out of 40 marks.

It is worth 45% of the total grade for this course.

Instructions:
1. Carefully complete your Name and Student ID in the spaces provided on this question paper.
2. This question paper must be submitted via Turnitin Link.
3. Students are required to obey SIBT’s Assessment Policy and Examination Policy as well as all
the instructions provided by the examination supervisor and must refrain from communicating
in any way with another student once they have entered the examination venue.
4. Students are not permitted to write or mark on the exam materials in any way during reading
time.
5. Type clearly and lay out your work neatly as no marks will be awarded for illegible or
unlabelled work.
6. This is an open-book exam, so you are expected to write in depth in your answers. You need
to demonstrate a strong understanding of the content of the unit to be awarded the marks for
each question. Any work copied from other sources will not receive marks.

Section Marks

Section A: Do ALL of Questions 1, 2 and 3 /16

Section B: Do Question 4 – Field, Tenor and Mode analysis of a text /6

Section C: Choose 3 questions to answer from Questions 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9  /18

Total Marks /40

MATERIALS PERMITTED
· Access to COMM107 Moodle site
· Textbook excerpts
This original examination consists of 9 pages including the cover page.
DO NOT START UNTIL INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.

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Section A (16 marks – Answer Questions 1, 2 and 3)
Question 1 - Experiential Meaning (8 marks)

[1/4 of a mark for each element labelled correctly]

LABEL the words using the terms participant; process, circumstance where
appropriate and then label the type of participant; process, and circumstance.

· Write the sentence on the first line of the table.

· Write the labels - participant; process, circumstance on the second line.
· Write the labels for the type of participant; process, circumstance on the third line.
· Use vertical lines to separate the parts – highlight the table; use ‘Layout’ and ‘split cells’

1. In the morning, the sun rises in the east.

2.

2. The young man and his partner are speaking.

3.

3. I hate exercise.

4.

4. There is a table in the corner.

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5.

5. That dog is incredibly fat.

6.

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Question 2 – Interpersonal Meaning (4 marks)

A. LABEL each sentence below as Declarative; Interrogative, or Imperative

(1/2 mark each)

1. Did you enjoy the party?

______________________________________

2. You need to follow the current lockdown rules carefully.

______________________________________

1. Close the door as you leave, please.

______________________________________

2. Our next party is going to be fantastic.

______________________________________

B. Explain the effect of clause type choice and modality in the following

sentence. (2 marks) Respond in full sentences and give examples of

clause type and modality as part of your explanation.

Do you think the report was possibly a bit long?

________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

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Question 3 – Textual Meaning (4 marks)

[1 mark for each sentence labelled correctly]

Identify and LABEL the Theme and the Rheme in the following 3 sentences.
(Write the sentences on the first line of the table. Write the labels on the second
line. Use vertical lines to separate the parts - highlight the table; use ‘Layout’
and ‘split cells’)

1. A long time ago, dinosaurs ruled the earth.

2.

2. People who do not wear masks are not permitted in the shops.

3.

There are two Themes in the following clause. Label both.

(Write the clause on the first line of the table. Write the labels on the second
line. Use a vertical line to separate the parts - highlight the table; use ‘Layout’
and ‘split cells’)

1. …but the customer did not want to wear a mask.

2.

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Section B
Question 4 – Field; Tenor, and Mode Analysis (6 marks)

Describe and discuss the Field, Tenor and Mode of the text below. Explain
with examples from the text. (You should write a paragraph answer for each –
Field, Tenor and Mode. - approximately 250 words in total)

The text:

Manager: Hi David, would you like to take a seat? I just wanted a short chat with
you. I wanted to discuss last month’s team report. Do you think it was a
little brief?

David: Yes. I guess it was a little short. I was really busy at the end of last
month.

Manager: I see. Can you see a way of planning your time so that the report gets
more priority and comes out with more detail?

David: Yes. I could do that.

Manager: That would be great. Do you think you could possibly send me the report
in draft form a week prior to the deadline next month?

David: Sure.

Manager: Great. Thanks for your time, David.

Field

Tenor

Mode

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Section C
(18 marks. Answer ONLY THREE questions from Qns 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9.)

Question 5 (6 marks)

Write a paragraph (approximately 100 words) discussing how some writers in

the media use the choice of certain words and sentence structure to shift
blame when reporting on violence. Describe what these reporters do and
discuss the effect of these strategies.

You can use the following paragraph from a newspaper article to find examples
and explain them in your discussion, but you should use MORE than just
examples from this article. You can use other examples and explanations from
your lecture notes.

‘Sex worker’, 24, who ‘had her throat slit’ in Sydney knife
rampage is pictured
By Guy Birchall
14 Aug 2019, 10:30

THE woman who allegedly "had her throat slit" in a flat by the Sydney knifeman
moments before he rampaged through the city has been named as Michaela Dunn.

Cops say Mert Ney met the 24-year-old - who is understood to be a sex worker - at her
apartment building before causing havoc in the city centre.

Write your answer here for Question 5:

Question 6 is on the next page

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Question 6 (6 marks) 

Write a paragraph (approximately 100 words) discussing ‘language as

communication’ in the intimate sphere. Consider: Mother-child talk, and the
differences between male and female language in the social sphere and
in the workplace.  Discuss how speakers create and maintain ways of thinking
about men and women.

You can use the following  4 texts to find examples and use them in your
discussion: 
Text 1  

Child: Is Pop home?   

Mother: No….They’re all out. They’re all at work  

Child: I not at work.

Mother: No, you’re only little.

Child: You at work?   

Mother: I don’t work. I look after you.  

Child: Do you like my painting?

Mother: Did you do a painting?   

Child: You should have looked on the cupboards.  

Mother: Oh, I know but I’m such a forgetful mummy. You have to remind me
because my brain doesn’t work too well sometimes.

  
Text 2  
4 boys at childcare talking about how high they can hit a ball  
  
Boy 1: Mine’s up there  
Boy 2: Mine’s up to the sky  
Boy 3: Mine’s up to heaven  
Boy 4: Mine’s all the way up to God  
  
Text 3  
2 girls at childcare sitting at a small table, drawing  
  
Girl 1: Did you know that my babysitter, called Amber, has got contacts?  

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Girl 2: My babysitter has contacts.  
Girl 1 and Girl 2 at the same time: The SAME!  
  
Text 4  
The manager in the text below is female. She is speaking to another manager.  
  
Manager: Jim’s performance has been a little disappointing of late. Don’t you think?  

Write your answer here for Question 6:

Question 7 (6 marks)

What strategies do some reporters use when reporting on war? You can use the
sentences below and/or use other examples from your notes to explain the
strategies. In your discussion, explain the effect of using these strategies.

· Baghdad was bombed on Monday.

· Since Sunday night, explosions have rolled into the centre of Baghdad.
· US cruise missiles struck Saddam Hussein’s main palace

Write your answer here for Question 7:

Question 8 (6 marks)
In one or two paragraphs (approximately 100 words):

1. Describe the features of language in the online environment.

2. Also discuss the ways that new communications technologies (mobile
phones; social media, and websites) have changed or had an impact on
people’s social networks and communication.

Give examples of these changes/impacts and examples of changes to language.

Write your answer here for Question 8:

Question 9 is on the next page.

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Question 9 (6 marks)

Look at the following academic text. What in the text indicates that it is an
academic text? In one paragraph (approximately 100 words), discuss the
elements that indicate this is an academic text. Use examples in your discussion.

A key argument in favour of homework is that children need to practise at home

what they learned at school. Research by Dunlosky et al (2015) supports the
idea that regular revision of work is the best way to learn and retain information.
However, it could happen that children spend hours at home practising the
wrong information because they do not have the immediate feedback from the
teacher. Therefore, it is more productive to revise and practise learning at
school. Moreover, Dunlosky et al (2015) also note that some types of revision
can be unproductive, and unfortunately, these are often the types of exercises
set as homework.

Write your answer here for Question 9:

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