Content description VCEALA093

EAL / Level A2 / Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness / Cultural understandings

Content description

Use a small range of strategies to negotiate meaning in conversation

Elaborations

seeking help or clarification from other speakers, for example through home language, gesture, rewording
interrupting to ask a speaker to repeat or speak slowly, such as by asking ‘Say again, please’
using some social formulas when asking for clarification, such as ‘Please’, ‘Excuse me’
composing simple requests to ask for clarification, for example ‘Please repeat’, ‘What means …?’
referring to the speaker’s key words when asking for clarification, for example Teacher: ‘Get your stationery’, Student: ‘What is stationery?’

Code

VCEALA093

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