VU23520 - Give and respond to simple spoken information and directions

Unit code: VU23520 | 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 performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required by EAL learners to understand and convey simple spoken information, and to follow and give routine directions or instructions.
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 in communication of information and instructions in generally familiar contexts such as school/college, community and work, 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:

  • listen and respond to two spoken texts, one informational and one giving instructions or directions
  • use simple strategies to present two spoken texts, one informational and one giving instructions or directions
  • review own learning and identify ways to develop skills with assistance.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • vocabulary to listen, respond to and give familiar information, instructions or directions on familiar topics
  • simple and compound sentence structures
  • simple questions, such as to seek clarification in a conversation
  • simple high frequency verb tenses and forms
  • simple modals such as should, would, could, might, need to
  • simple phrasal verbs, such as He’s looking for the exit, Can you turn off the light?
  • simple conjunctions, such as when, but, if, although, so, such as, I want to learn English so I come to class
  • simple high frequency discourse markers and cohesive devices, such as first, then, by the way, anyway, so, after that
  • adjectives, adverbs or some adverbial phrases, such as as soon as possible
  • prepositions and prepositional phrases
  • paralinguistic features of conversations and transactions to support understanding and communication
  • some awareness of how pausing, stress and intonation modify meaning.
    Sociolinguistic and Cultural Knowledge:
  • politeness conventions in conversation as appropriate
  • 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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