VU23498 - Read and write short highly familiar messages and forms

Unit code: VU23498 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours:
70
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 read and write short, highly familiar digital and/or paper-based messages, and to read and complete highly familiar forms for immediate personal needs.
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 Reading and Writing at Pre Level 1 and Level 1, and
  • the ISLPR (International Second Language Proficiency Ratings) descriptors for Reading and Writing. They partly contribute to the achievement of Reading 1 and Writing 1.
    This unit applies to learners who need to develop basic reading and writing skills in English to satisfy immediate personal needs in familiar 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:

  • read one simple message in a highly familiar context, which may be in paper-based or in digital format
  • write one simple message in a highly familiar context, which may be in paper-based or in digital format
  • read simple instructions and write simple personal details on one form, which may be in paper-based or in digital format.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • a small number of simple, common high frequency words and some formulaic phrases related to personal information
  • very common high frequency simple tense forms, including simple present tense
  • simple imperative used in simple forms and messages / signs
  • simple short sentence structure (subject-verb-object)
  • simple prepositional phrases in messages and forms such as Write in the box
  • connection between familiar words and pictures / signs.
    Sociolinguistic and Cultural Knowledge:
  • simple conventions in messages and forms.
    Numeracy Knowledge:
  • one, two or three digit numbers to convey personal information
  • simple time
  • simple dates.

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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