AP Chinese Language and Culture 2014 Scoring Guidelines

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1 AP Chinese Language and Culture 2014 Scoring Guidelines College Board, Advanced Placement Program, AP, AP Central, and the acorn logo are registered trademarks of the College Board. AP Central is the official online home for the AP Program: apcentral.collegeboard.org.

2 Presentational Writing: Story Narration Narration includes a thorough and detailed beginning, middle, and end that tell a logical and complete story consistent with clear progression of ideas; use of appropriate transitional elements and cohesive devices; well-connected discourse of paragraph Narration includes a beginning, middle, and end that tell a logical and complete story consistent with progression of ideas that is generally clear; some use of transitional connected discourse of paragraph Narration tells a complete story consistent with but may lack detail or elaboration or have minor inconsistencies in its logical progression from beginning to end inconsistent; discourse of paragraph, although sentences may be loosely connected Narration tells a basic story consistent with but may have inconsistencies in its logical progression from beginning to end Response characterized by description or listing, with little narration; may be inconsistent with Scattered information generally lacks organization and coherence; minimal or no cohesive devices; fragmented sentences Response incomplete and difficult to follow; lacks narrative elements; may be inconsistent with Lacks organization and coherence; very disjointed sentences or isolated words Completely irrelevant to the Not in Chinese characters Blank except for occasional lapses May include several lapses in otherwise consistent use of register Use of register is inconsistent or includes in in structures, with structures, with sporadic vocabulary and idioms, with that do not generally obscure that do not generally obscure ; intermittent that obscure ; another that obscure that significantly obscure ; constant significantly obscure

3 Interpersonal Writing: Response with thoroughness and detail clear progression of ideas; use of appropriate transitional elements and cohesive devices; well-connected discourse of paragraph progression of ideas that is generally clear; some use of transitional connected discourse of paragraph but may lack detail or elaboration inconsistent; discourse of paragraph, although sentences may be loosely connected addresses topic directly but may not address all aspects of addresses topic only marginally or addresses only some aspects of Scattered information generally lacks organization and coherence; minimal or no cohesive devices; fragmented sentences addresses only minimally Lacks organization and coherence; very disjointed sentences or isolated words Completely irrelevant to the Not in Chinese characters Blank except for occasional lapses May include several lapses in otherwise consistent use of register Use of register is inconsistent or includes in in structures, with structures, with sporadic vocabulary and idioms, with that do not generally obscure that do not generally obscure ; intermittent that obscure ; another that obscure that significantly obscure ; constant significantly obscure

4 Interpersonal Speaking: Conversation provides a very thorough and appropriate response; includes elaboration and detail Smoothly connected sentences provides a thorough and appropriate response; may include elaboration and detail Connected sentences provides an appropriate response Sentences may be loosely connected provides a basic but appropriate answer Disconnected sentences provides an appropriate but incomplete answer Fragmented sentences Addresses prompt minimally or marginally Very disjointed sentences or isolated words Natural pace and intonation, with minimal hesitation or Accurate pronunciation (including tones), with minimal Smooth pace and intonation, with occasional hesitation and Occasional in pronunciation (including tones) except for occasional lapses Generally consistent pace and intonation, with intermittent hesitation and May have several in pronunciation (including tones), which do not necessitate special listener effort May include several lapses in otherwise consistent use of register Inconsistent pace and intonation, with hesitation and that interfere with comprehension Errors in pronunciation (including tones) sometimes necessitate special listener effort Use of register appropriate to situation is inconsistent or includes Labored pace and intonation, with frequent hesitation and constant listener effort in Very labored pace and intonation, with constant hesitation and intense listener effort in Mere restatement of the prompt Clearly does not respond to the prompt I don t know, I don t understand, Please repeat, or equivalent in Chinese Not in Mandarin Chinese Blank (although recording equipment is functioning) or mere sighs structures, with minimal structures, with sporadic that do not generally obscure grammatical structures, with that do not generally obscure Limited appropriate sometimes obscure ; intermittent structures, with frequent that sometimes obscure that obscure ; another structures, with frequent that obscure that significantly obscure ; constant grammatical structures, with significantly obscure

5 Presentational Speaking: Cultural Presentation and and and and and lack of and of prompt with thoroughness and detail Well organized and coherent, with a clear progression of ideas; use of appropriate transitional elements and cohesive devices; wellconnected discourse of paragraph Cultural information is ample, accurate, and detailed of prompt Well organized and coherent, with a progression of ideas that is generally clear; some use of devices; connected discourse of paragraph Cultural information is accurate and detailed of prompt but may lack detail or elaboration inconsistent; discourse of paragraph, although sentences may be loosely connected Cultural information is accurate but may lack detail Presentation addresses topic directly but may not address all aspects of prompt Cultural information is generally correct but has some inaccuracies Presentation addresses topic only marginally or addresses only some aspects of prompt Scattered information generally lacks organization and coherence; minimal or no use of transitional fragmented sentences Cultural information has several inaccuracies Presentation addresses prompt only minimally Lacks organization and coherence; very disjointed sentences or isolated words Cultural information has frequent or significant inaccuracies Natural pace and intonation, with minimal hesitation or Accurate pronunciation (including tones), with Smooth pace and intonation, with occasional hesitation and Occasional in pronunciation (including tones) except for occasional lapses Generally consistent pace and intonation, with intermittent hesitation and May have several in pronunciation (including tones), which do not necessitate special listener effort May include several lapses in otherwise consistent use of register Inconsistent pace and intonation, with hesitation and that interfere with comprehension Errors in pronunciation (including tones) sometimes necessitate special listener effort Use of register appropriate to situation is inconsistent or includes Labored pace and intonation, with frequent hesitation and constant listener effort in Very labored pace and intonation, with constant hesitation and intense listener effort in Mere restatement of the prompt Clearly does not respond to the prompt; completely irrelevant to the topic Not in Mandarin Chinese Blank (although recording equipment is functioning) or mere sighs structures, with structures, with sporadic vocabulary and idioms, with that do not generally obscure grammatical structures, with that do not generally obscure ; intermittent that obscure ; repeated that obscure that significantly obscure ; constant interference from another significantly obscure