Assess learners' ability to apply critical discourse analysis frameworks to deconstruct ideological framing and rhetorical strategies in political speeches and news media. Tasks should require identification of discursive devices (metaphor, presupposition, modality, agency), analysis of genre, intertextuality and multimodal cues, contextualization of power relations and interests, and structured use of CDA methods (e.g., Fairclough, van Dijk, Wodak) to support claims about ideological intent and likely public effects using textual evidence.