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• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway C: Late immersion - EAL: Level C3 description

  The Level C3 curriculum supports students to expand their knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their spoken English. At this level, students learn to listen, question and respond in English in a broad range of contexts. Students are provided with a variety of listening and speaking...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL

• VCEALA682

  Develop non-verbal communication skills

  Elaborations

  • using eye contact, facial expressions, posture and gesture to communicate as an active listener in group discussions
  • rehearsing non-verbal communication for prepared presentations with a partner and seeking feedback, or videoing self using a digital device for reflection and self-assessment

  VCEALA682 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level C3 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  At Level C3 students demonstrate a basic understanding of the main ideas, issues or plot developments in a range of accessible texts from across the curriculum. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.

  Students demonstrate...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing

• VCEALA722

  Demonstrate the development of metalanguage appropriate to the content and task

  Elaborations

  • using metalanguage related to text and language, for example ‘topic sentence’, ‘verb’, ‘pronoun’
  • recording terminology in personal notes or word lists, with translations in home language or examples from texts

  VCEALA722 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALA684

  Clarify in home language to check understanding

  Elaborations

  • seeking clarification from home language peers about new vocabulary and concepts
  • referring to home language or bilingual glossaries, dictionaries or online translation tools for explanation of new vocabulary and information
  • recording words and information in personal dictionaries or notes to indicate meaning, pronunciation and usage

  VCEALA684 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALA718

  Understand how the purpose and audience of a text can influence content and form

  Elaborations

  • designing layout and visual features to suit purpose and audience, for example using bright colours in an illustrated story for children
  • transforming texts to suit a different purpose or audience, for example converting a road safety website for learner drivers to a pamphlet for older drivers
  • discussing language choices with regard to purpose and audience, for example reflecting on word choices in a persuasive text

  VCEALA718 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC699

  Read with understanding texts on familiar topics, with some visual support

  Elaborations

  • reading a range of common factual texts, such as online posts that include images or diagrams
  • viewing multimodal texts, such as news reports, that combine audio, subtitles and video

  VCEALC699 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALC700

  Respond to imaginative texts, showing an understanding of key events, characters and issues

  Elaborations

  • responding to a range of creative texts, such as poems, short stories, novels, films, songs
  • showing understanding of key events, characters and issues by retelling, transforming or extending parts of the text
  • expressing a point of view and connecting aspects of the text to personal experience
  • drawing basic inferences from a text, such as describing the feelings of a character or suggesting the opinion of the author

  VCEALC700 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALL711

  Read and understand sentences containing a broad range of descriptive language

  Elaborations

  • understanding complex noun groups that use a range of pointers, counters, describers, classifiers, qualifiers, and concrete and abstract head nouns
  • understanding a range of adverbial phrases, such as ‘very tightly’, and prepositional phrases, such as ‘with a blue pen’

  VCEALL711 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALA702

  Understand the relationship between text structures and social purposes of text types studied in class

  Elaborations

  • understanding a range of school texts, such as a practical report, a review, a research project
  • discussing the purpose of individual features of a text, for example headings in a pamphlet or images on a website
  • using modelled metalanguage to name and describe features of texts

  VCEALA702 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL709

  Read texts with a range of sentence types

  Elaborations

  • understanding compound and complex sentences containing multiple clauses
  • understanding sentences containing some sophisticated features, such as noun groups and modality

  VCEALL709 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level C3 achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  At Level C3 students listen, question and respond successfully in a wide range of social and academic contexts. They demonstrate sufficient control of stress, rhythm and intonation to be understood in most contexts. They use appropriate non-verbal language, take account of purpose and audience...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening

• VCEALA721

  Use home language resources such as bilingual dictionaries to improve range and clarity of expression

  Elaborations

  • consulting print resources, such as bilingual dictionaries, charts, word lists, to develop vocabulary by looking up synonyms and antonyms
  • recording a vocabulary list that includes English, home language and details such as meaning, usage, related terms

  VCEALA721 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC675

  Participate in a range of school routines in mainstream classrooms

  Elaborations

  • understanding classroom routines, including listening to others before speaking, turn-taking and putting hand up
  • understanding and recounting a spoken sequence of instructions, or a description or explanation relating to a topic
  • comprehending topic-specific vocabulary and grammatical structures that connect and sequence ideas

  VCEALC675 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC696

  Interpret and respond to accessible texts from across the curriculum

  Elaborations

  • reading and viewing in-school texts, including a range of factual and fictional text types, in print and digital formats
  • understanding background information associated with the content and text type, including the purpose and structure

  VCEALC696 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Communication

• VCEALL686

  Produce a range of coherent texts appropriate for audience and purpose

  Elaborations

  • understanding and producing text types according to conventions, such as reports, arguments, formal speeches
  • incorporating appropriate organisational features for the text type, for example introduction, arguments for and against, conclusion in a discussion

  VCEALL686 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL731

  Use a growing range of simple vocabulary

  Elaborations

  • using a small range of synonyms to avoid repetition
  • understanding differences between specialised or colloquial language, for example ‘feline’, ‘cat’ and ‘moggy’
  • accessing resources such as class texts, word lists, a print or online thesaurus to expand vocabulary

  VCEALL731 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL708

  Identify the role of cohesive markers in a text

  Elaborations

  • identifying cohesive markers in a text, such as ‘also’, ‘finally’, ‘however’
  • understanding the words replaced by reference items, and tracing these reference chains through a long text, for example ‘The team was reluctant to remain during the polar winter, when the sun may not be seen for over a month, as this is the most difficult time for Arctic exploration’

  VCEALL708 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features