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English Language For SHS

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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT AND CLASSIFICATION OF TEST ITEMS

TABLE OF SPECIFICATION
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR SHS & JHS
Sub-content areas Competencies
Content Areas Descriptive statement
1 Oral language 1. Sound description 1. Articulate/produce English 1. Provide the words for the sounds to be
2. Minimal pairs speech sounds in identified
3. Stress identification/usage communication 2. Identify minimal pairs in contexts.
4. Conversation 2. Understand the use of stress 3. Determine the stress pattern of words in
in contexts context.
4. Describe speech sounds (vowels and
consonants) in contexts.
5. Identify the communicative functions of
given sentences/utterances
2 Reading 1. Give a passage and test varied levels 1. Understand varied levels of 1. Use context clues to determine the
of meaning, a figurative use of meanings in a given passage meaning of words used in a given
language, synonyms and antonyms passage
2. Questions on sentence functions 2. Summarize given texts into required
(topic sentence, major support, minor forms.
support, concluding statement) in a 3. Identify various sentence functions (topic
paragraph sentence, major support, minor support,
3. Questions on reading and appropriate concluding statement) in contexts
reading techniques.

3 Writing 1. Micro: punctuation use, 1. Compose and analyse 1. Organize sentences/ideas in a coherent
capitalisation, spelling, homonyms. features/elements/convention manner
2. Macro: structure, transition, s of a written text/discourse 2. Develop/analyse ideas in a paragraph
coherence, cohesion, completeness, type (argumentative, with the appropriate supporting
unity, order of sentences, register use. descriptive essay, letters, sentences.
minutes, CV, speech, report, 3. Determine the appropriate and correct
etc.) use of language
4 Grammar 1. Parts of speech (word classes) 1. Understand and use 1. Explain fixed expressions (idioms and
grammatical forms accurately multi-word verbs) in contexts
i. Usage – prepositions, in speech and writing 2. Identify and correct grammatical errors in
conjunctions, given contexts.
ii. Identification 3. Identify appropriate synonyms or
antonyms for words in contexts.
2. Order of adjectives 4. Identify different types of phrases, clauses
3. Concord and sentences, and their functions in
4. Tense and aspect contexts.
5. Sequence of tenses
6. Conditional sentences
7. Reported speech
8. Voice (passive & active)
9. Articles and determiners
10. Phrasal verbs
11. Idioms (idiomatic expressions)
12. Question tags
13. Synonyms and antonyms
14. Lexis and structure
15. Phrases and clauses
16. Sentence usage (clausal elements,
sentence types)
17. Sentence errors (faulty parallel
structures, run-on sentences,
dangling modifiers)

5 Literature 1. General knowledge 1. Appreciate literary works 1. Identify the elements of the literary
2. Forms and genres of literature genres (prose, poetry and drama)
3. Elements of prose, poetry and 2. Identify literary devices
drama 3. Appreciate the use of literary terms
4. Literary appreciation (unseen
prose and poem)
TABLE OF SPECIFICATION: ENGLISH

Course Objectives/ OUTCOMES (Depth of Knowledge)

Content Areas LEVEL 1- LEVEL 2 – LEVEL 3 – (STRATEGIC LEVEL 4 – (EXTENDED


(RECALL) (SKILL/CONCEPT) THINKING) THINKING)

Oral language 2.25 (2) 3.75 (3) 4.5 (4) 4.5 (4) 15 (13)
Reading 3 5 6 6 20
Writing 3 5 6 6 20
Grammar 4.5 (4) 7.5 (8) 9 9 30
Literature 2.25 (3) 3.75 (4) 4.5 (5) 4.5 (5) 15 (17)
Total 15% 25% 30% 30% 100

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