CQUniversity Unit Profile.

The quiz will open FRIDAY WEEK 6 (24th April) at 5pm and close on THURSDAY WEEK 7 (30th April) at 11:55pm. You will access the quiz via Moodle and it is available for you to complete in your own time from Friday 24th April at 5pm until Thursday 30th April at 11:55pm. However you can only have one attempt and there is a time limit of 60 minutes. Therefore, once you commence the quiz you must be prepared to complete it within the hour. If you have not submitted your responses after 60 minutes, Moodle will automatically do this for you. When your answers are submitted, you will be able to review these responses but you will not be able to change them. You also will not receive immediate feedback, as each question on the quiz will need to be marked manually.

PLEASE NOTE THAT IF MOODLE DOES PROVIDE YOU WITH FEEDBACK OR ANSWERS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE COMPLETION OF THE QUIZ, THIS FEEDBACK IS LIKELY TO BE INACCURATE, AS THE QUIZ NEEDS TO BE MARKED MANUALLY BY TINA BEFORE RESULTS ARE RELEASED. ANY IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK PROVIDED BY MOODLE SHOULD THEREFORE BE DISREGARDED.

Further information regarding the logistics of the quizzes will be discussed during class. You will also be provided with example questions in the lead-up to the quiz and further information about Online Quizzes can be found via the 'Moodle Help for Students' link, also on the Moodle page. In order to pass this assessment item, a minimum total mark of 50% (i.e. 15/30 overall) is required. Note that due to the nature of this assessment task, there is no marking rubric. You will however be given examples of quiz questions during class and you should expect the questions to be based on any topic that is addressed in Weeks 1-6. 

The online quiz will contain a range of multiple-choice, short-answer and/or true/false questions, each of which will be worth a designated number of marks that will be specified on the quiz. Marks will therefore be awarded accordingly, based on the accuracy of your responses.The questions will be based on the range of topics covered in each of the lectures provided in the weeks prior to the quiz (Weeks 1-6) and will relate to both acoustics and phonetics. For example, questions may be related to your knowledge of consonants, vowels, spectrograms, suprasegmentals, sounds and sound waves.

This assessment task constitutes 30% of the unit grade and is designed to provide you with the opportunity to apply the speech analysis skills and the knowledge that you have gained from this unit, to a range of real data. There are three parts to this assessment task and you will need to submit your written responses to all three parts in a single document. You will also need to submit any recordings that you made for part two. Please make sure that this is in a usable format (e.g., WAV or MP3) and is not corrupted. Both the written component and the recording/s must be submitted through Moodle.

The rubric for this task is on Moodle which provides a detailed description of the assessment criteria and allocation of marks. In summary you are assessed on the following:

• Accuracy and comprehensiveness of your responses to each of the three parts of the assessment task
• Use of conventions including standard of writing, the use of referencing, and the overall presentation

You should use APA referencing and include a reference list at the end of your assignment. Note that the reference list is not included in your word count. You will be provided with specific details of the word counts for each section on the rubric in Moodle. 

The marks allocated for each section will be totalled and then converted to a grade out of 30. As this is a MUST PASS assessment a minimum of 50% (i.e. 15/30) is required to pass the unit. 

The complete details of this final assessment piece are on the rubric for Assessment three which can be found on Moodle. You will also have the opportunity to discuss the requirements of this task in class. The assessment has two parts.

Part one - Phonetic transcription

• phonetically transcribe a child’s recorded speech sample using the correct IPA symbols, including the Australian vowel symbols (according to the Harrington, Cox and Evans (HCE, 1997) system);
• use diacritics to provide specific information about the child’s speech production;
• mark primary syllable stress on all multisyllabic words (i.e. words containing two or more syllables); and
• set out your transcription in a clear and logical format that is easy to follow and easy to read.

Part two - Analysis report

For this part of the assessment task, you must create a written report that provides an analysis of your transcription. You will need to describe a number of features of the child’s speech (such as the way that he/she produces certain sounds/syllables/words) as well as the transcription (such as inconsistencies and patterns that you may have found). Details of these feature are included on the rubric for this task and discussed in class. In addition, you will need to provide a narrative description of the articulation of a given segment. Listed below are examples to include in each section. 

2.1 Provide a thorough analysis and discussion regarding the child’s speech

Use the following prompts to guide your analysis:

• Does the child produce any speech sound errors? That is, does the child say sounds in a way that you would not expect a typical adult speaker of Standard Australian English to produce? Explore this.
• Analyse and discuss the child’s use of the following speech features, providing clear examples of each:

• co-articulation and assimilation
• syllable stress
• voicing and devoicing
• syllabic consonants
• prosody
• epenthetic consonants
• /t/ and /l/ allophones
• consonant deletion/elision
• labialisation
• any other interesting features of the child’s speech that you noted (for example, her use (or lack of use) of aspiration or release of oral stops)

2.2 Discuss, analyse and reflect on features of the phonetic transcript and the phonetic transcription process that you undertook in Part 1

In your response, reflect and report on the following:

• challenges you faced and difficulties you experienced
• anomalies or inconsistencies you found
• aspects of the transcription process that were straightforward, such as features that were easy to identify and transcribe
• any other points of interest

2.3 Write a narrative description of the child’s articulation - the recommended word limit for this sub-task is approximately 500 words. You should provide a thorough description of the features of each phoneme within the phrase. When completing this task, you should not only carefully consider place, manner and voicing of each sound produced (for example, the position and movement of the articulators and the involvement of the vocal folds to create voice), but you should also very clearly describe the transitions which occur between each of these phonemes.

This final assessment is worth 40% of the overall grade for SPCH13005 and therefore to pass the unit you will require a minimum overall mark of 20/40 (i.e. 50%) on this task. The breakdown of the marking criteria and allocation of marks is provided in detail on the rubric which can be found on Moodle and will be discussed in class. In summary, you will be graded on the following components.

Part 1: Phonetic Transcription

• There is no word limit that applies to this section of the assignment, as you are just required to transcribe the child’s speech sample
• You are not required to transcribe (orthographically or phonetically) the speech of the child’s communication partner
• You are not required to transcribe sounds made by the child that are either sighs, grunts or similar non-word noises. You should however still transcribe words that are fillers (e.g. um, ah, oh), as these carry characteristics of real words (e.g. distinct consonants and vowels).
• Consult the criteria on the rubric for details of the marks allocated to each component

The total out of 40 for part one is appropriately converted to a mark out of 16. 

Part 2: Analysis Report

You will be assessed on the accuracy and comprehensiveness of your response to this report, as well as the standard of writing, professionalism, use of referencing (where appropriate), and overall presentation. Any references used should follow APA style and be included in a reference list at the end of your assignment. In order to ensure that this task is kept manageable, the maximum total word limit for Part 2 is 2500 words (note that this includes in-text citations and headings, but not your reference list). However, this total word limit is considered generous and you may therefore find it to be excessive (recommended word limits for each sub-task are provided in the instructions). In your assignment, you may present information in a variety of formats – dot points, tables, etc. are acceptable, provided that they are easy to read and understand. 

The total out of 60 for part two is appropriately converted to a mark out of 24.

Your marks from section one (out of 16) and section two (out of 24) are combined to give the total out of 40 for assessment three. As stated earlier to pass this assessment you must achieve 20/40 (i.e. 50%).