VU23497 - Give and respond to short highly familiar information

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Unit code: VU23497 | 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 to engage in short spoken interactions. It focuses on engaging with another person and responding to short, highly familiar everyday spoken information in highly familiar and immediate social contexts.
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
  • 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 learners who need to develop basic English language speaking and listening skills to satisfy immediate personal and survival needs in highly familiar and highly predictable contexts such as shopping, banking, health and using public transport.

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:

  • listen and respond to one short, highly familiar information text
  • give one short, highly familiar spoken information text
  • use highly familiar language to participate in a brief face-to-face exchange with another person on a highly familiar everyday topic
  • use highly familiar communication strategies to clarify meaning or information.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • simple, common high frequency verbs, nouns and adjectives related to giving highly familiar information, such as It’s a nice day, black hair, brown eyes
  • formulaic expressions related to common information topics such as It’s cold today, Its ok
  • simple interrogative question forms
  • simple modal ‘can’ in relation to giving and responding to information, such as Can you sit down please?
  • very common high frequency basic tense forms, such as simple present tense of be, simple present tense of have, simple imperative forms
  • simple vocabulary limited to everyday literal words to give simple information
  • common prepositional phrases to give verbal information
  • simple paralinguistic cues, such as body language to clarify, interpret and convey meaning.
    Sociolinguistic and Cultural Knowledge:
  • appropriate forms of address
  • simple common polite expressions.

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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