VU23494 - Use strategies to develop language learning with support

Unit code: VU23494 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours:
30
Location
Footscray Nicholson
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required by EAL learners who have had little or no formal education to plan and implement language learning strategies to support language development in a formal learning environment with the assistance of a support person.
The outcomes described in this unit relate to:

  • the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). They contribute to the achievement of ACSF indicators of competence for Learning and Oral Communication at Pre level 1 and Level 1, and
  • the ISLPR (International Second Language Proficiency Ratings) descriptors for Speaking and Listening. Not applicable to this unit.This unit applies to learners who need to develop planning skills for language learning as a foundation for independent learning.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work-based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • identify and document at least one language learning need and at least one language learning strategy with a support person
  • use at least one resource to implement the learning strategy with a support person
  • review learning needs and strategies with a support person.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • highly familiar common high frequency nouns and adjectives to discuss immediate personal learning needs
  • highly familiar time modifiers related to implementation of strategies
  • highly familiar interrogative question forms
  • use of simple modal such as can
  • simple expressions to talk about learning needs
  • simple paralinguistic features to interpret and convey meaning in communicating language learning needs.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Course in EAL
22637VIC | Non-award course | Duration: 6 months

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