VU23519 - Participate in simple conversations and transactions

Unit code: VU23519 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours:
80
Location
Footscray Nicholson
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required by EAL learners to participate in simple conversations and discussions on everyday topics, and to engage in routine transactions related to personal consumption of goods and services.
The outcomes described in this unit relate to:

  • the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). They contribute directly to the achievement of ACSF indicators of competence in Oral Communication at Level 2, and
  • the ISLPR (International Second Language Proficiency Ratings) descriptors for Speaking and Listening. They contribute directly to the achievement of ISLPR Speaking 2 and Listening 2.This unit applies to participants wishing to develop speaking and listening skills in English to satisfy simple social and transactional needs in generally familiar contexts such as shopping, transport, work, community, and school/college and also in communication with people outside of their immediate circle.

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 three simple spoken interactions, including at least one conversation and at least one transaction to:
  • initiate and sustain a conversation with one or more people on a familiar everyday topic
  • obtain and give essential information in a transaction on a familiar or expected matter
  • review own performance and identify ways to develop skills.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • vocabulary to:
  • talk about familiar personal, community, social or topical matters, such as personal details, simple social events
  • communicate about everyday goods and services
  • simple sentence structures, such as
  • simple and compound sentences
  • simple questions, such as to seek clarification in a conversation, ask for repetition or restatement
  • simple common high frequency verb tenses and forms
  • simple modals, such as should, could, would, might, need to
  • simple common phrasal verbs, such as Can you pick up the orders?
    She’s looking after her mother
  • simple polite transactional expressions, such as Would you be able to..? I was wondering if you could…? Are you able to help me? Am I able to pay here? So who should I talk to about…?
  • simple conjunctions, such as when, but, if although, so, When I left school, I got a job in a factory
  • simple high frequency discourse markers or cohesive devices, such as first, then, by the way, anyway, so, after that
  • adjectives, adverbs or some adverbial phrases
  • prepositions or prepositional phrases, such as On the weekend, At the end of Ramadan
  • simple paralinguistic features, such as body language, to interpret and convey meaning or acknowledge understanding
  • some awareness of how pausing, word and sentence stress modify meaning.
    Sociolinguistic and Cultural Knowledge
  • politeness conventions in conversation
  • some awareness of register.

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):

Certificate II in EAL (Access)
22639VIC | Certificate ii | Duration:

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