VU23496 - Communicate basic personal details and needs

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Unit code: VU23496 | Study level: TAFE
Credit points
N/A
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 with little or no formal education to
communicate basic personal information and needs. It focuses on participating in simple highly familiar conversations, and responding to simple, highly familiar requests for personal information.
The outcomes described in this unit relate to:

  • the Australian Core Skill Framework (ACSF). They contribute to the achievement of ACSF indicators of competence in Oral
    Communication at Pre Level 1 and Level 1, and
  • the ISLPR (International Second Language Proficiency Ratings) descriptors for Speaking and Listening. They partly contribute to the achievement of Speaking 1 and Listening 1.
    This unit applies to participants who need to develop basic English language speaking and listening skills to satisfy immediate personal and survival needs in familiar and highly predictable contexts.

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:

  • participate in two highly familiar conversations to demonstrate ability to:
  • use and respond to basic greetings
  • give basic personal information, including a personal preference
  • make and respond to two short simple, highly predictable requests for basic personal information and immediate needs.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • basic common high frequency verbs, nouns and adjectives related to immediate personal needs, information and interests
  • formulaic expressions related to
  • greetings
  • introductions
  • common topics
  • seeking clarification, repetition
  • highly familiar interrogative question forms such as where, when, what, who, yes/no questions
  • highly familiar modal question forms such as Can you…?
  • highly familiar adjectives to describe objects and express basic preferences, likes or dislikes
  • regular plural forms
  • simple paralinguistic features to interpret and convey basic preferences, likes and dislikes.
    Sociolinguistic and Cultural Knowledge:
  • appropriate forms of address when communicating information
  • basic common polite expressions such as please, thank you, sorry.
    Numeracy Knowledge:
  • numbers related to personal tion, such as flat / house number, birth date or number of children.

Required reading

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