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• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level C4 achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  At Level C4 students demonstrate greater autonomy and control over their use of English, combining their expanding vocabulary with the appropriate use of a wide range of complex grammatical features including modal verbs, passive voice and tenses. They demonstrate understanding of the ways that...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C4 | Speaking and Listening

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway C: Late immersion - EAL: Level C1 achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  At Level C1 students communicate simply but effectively in English in social and classroom contexts across the curriculum. They negotiate meaning and interact with others using formulaic language; short, simple and well-rehearsed grammatical features; and creative adaptations of their English...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening

• English: Level C achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level C, students listen to and view a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts from familiar contexts. They identify the main character or event in a familiar text using visual images from the text. They participate in interactive stories and repeat or activate a short phrase...

  Level description | English | Level C | Reading and Viewing

• English: Level C achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  Students listen to and interact with others. They use particular greetings to acknowledge people, respond with ‘yes’, ‘no’ or single words to indicate understanding and use a few words and simple phrases. They can share their favourite items or experience with a small group...

  Level description | English | Level C | Speaking and Listening

• VCEALC550

  Exchange information in oral interactions

  Elaborations

  • understanding a range of common questions on personal or familiar topics
  • using common sentence structures and borrowing phrases from questions, for example ‘What do you like to do on the weekends?’ ‘I like to do sport on the weekends’

  VCEALC550 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALL607

  Use common punctuation with some consistency

  Elaborations

  • using commas consistently in lists or to indicate pauses
  • using question marks to indicate questions, with occasional inaccuracy, for example ‘She asked to borrow a pencil?’
  • correcting capital letters and full stops when reviewing own or others’ writing

  VCEALL607 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL689

  Construct a range of sentence types

  Elaborations

  • constructing statements, questions and commands with consistent accuracy
  • experimenting with tag endings on questions, for example ‘You didn’t tell him, did you?’, ‘It goes back here, doesn’t it?’

  VCEALL689 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL586

  Understand simple punctuation when reading

  Elaborations

  • using punctuation to identify the nature of sentences, for example identifying statements by full stops and questions by question marks
  • using punctuation to identify parts of a sentence, for example pausing appropriately at full stops and commas

  VCEALL586 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL399

  Experiment with complex punctuation

  Elaborations

  • using commas to separate items in a list or to indicate pauses in a sentence
  • using question marks to indicate questions, with occasional inaccuracy, for example ‘She asked to borrow a pencil?’
  • using exclamation marks to emphasise an idea

  VCEALL399 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level C1 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  At Level C1 students read and comprehend a range of short, simple, familiar factual or fictional texts developed by the teacher. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.

  Students understand a range of basic print instructions...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing

• VCEALC614

  Interact with peers in routine pair or group work activities

  Elaborations

  • listening to peers and responding appropriately, by acknowledging, clarifying or adding to what they say
  • negotiating meaning by rephrasing, clarifying and asking questions

  VCEALC614 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCELA352

  Investigate how vocabulary choices, including evaluative language can express shades of meaning, feeling and opinion

  Elaborations

  • identifying (for example from reviews) the ways in which evaluative language is used to assess the qualities of the various aspects of the work in question

  VCELA352 | Curriculum content | English | Level 6 | Writing | Language

• VCELY366

  Participate in and contribute to discussions, clarifying and interrogating ideas, developing and supporting arguments, sharing and evaluating information, experiences and opinions, and use interaction skills, varying conventions of spoken interactions according to group size, formality of interaction...

  Elaborations

  • using strategies, for example pausing, questioning, rephrasing, repeating, summarising, reviewing and asking clarifying questions
  • exploring personal reasons for acceptance or rejection of opinions offered and linking the reasons to the way our cultural experiences can affect our responses
  • recognising that closed questions ask for precise responses while open questions prompt a speaker to provide more information

  VCELY366 | Curriculum content | English | Level 6 | Speaking and Listening | Literacy

• VCEALL158

  Use some punctuation consistently

  Elaborations

  • using a range of common punctuation, such as full stops, question marks, commas
  • starting sentences with a capital letter and ending with a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark
  • correcting capital letters and full stops when reviewing own or others’ writing

  VCEALL158 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL630

  Use pronunciation and some non-verbal features to support communication

  Elaborations

  • using stress or intonation appropriately in common utterances, for example using rising intonation when asking questions, and stressing key words in short utterances
  • distinguishing different intonation patterns, such as for questions, statements, lists
  • attending to pronunciation and imitating and rehearsing in order to pronounce polysyllabic words

  VCEALL630 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALA554

  Check understanding of classroom English by asking for clarification from other home language speakers

  Elaborations

  • formulating questions in English and home language to clarify classroom instructions or new ideas and vocabulary
  • drawing on a range of shared languages to negotiate meaning and clarify information

  VCEALA554 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALA251

  Check understanding of classroom English with other home language speakers

  Elaborations

  • formulating questions in English and home language to clarify classroom instructions or new ideas and vocabulary
  • drawing on a range of shared languages to negotiate meaning and clarify information

  VCEALA251 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC321

  Demonstrate independence in extended conversations

  Elaborations

  • contributing ideas and information to extend the conversation and make connections to other speakers
  • asking questions for clarification or elaboration of ideas
  • giving personal opinion, such as agreement or disagreement with a point

  VCEALC321 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC405

  Understand increasingly de-contextualised and more complex spoken language

  Elaborations

  • understanding teacher questions on familiar topics or themes and responding appropriately
  • comprehending most spoken information without support
  • preparing and presenting a short talk to a group or the class

  VCEALC405 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC505

  Identify some familiar words in different contexts

  Elaborations

  • identifying familiar information in a text, for example recognising friends’ names on worksheets or belongings
  • locating specific words or information in a text, using questions or prompts as guidance

  VCEALC505 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Reading and Viewing | Communication