VCEALA554 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness
VCEALA532 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness
VCEALA683 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C3 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness
VCEALC324 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication
The Level A1 curriculum supports students as they develop basic knowledge, understanding and skills in English. Through immersion in English, students build their capacity to participate in routine and familiar exchanges in English with their peers. As a result, they begin to recognise the ways...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL
At Level BL students communicate simply but effectively in familiar, social and classroom contexts, using simple formulaic and some creative structures. They learn through English that is well supported by context. They contribute relatively complex ideas through simple English, and use simple...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway B: Mid immersion | EAL | Level BL | Speaking and Listening
The Level BL curriculum supports students as they develop basic knowledge, understanding and skills in English. Through immersion in English, students build their capacity to initiate and sustain simple conversations with their peers. The curriculum covers grammatical rules that students begin...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway B: Mid immersion | EAL
The Level CL curriculum supports students as they develop basic knowledge, understanding and skills in English. Through immersion in English, students build their capacity to participate in routine and familiar exchanges in English with their peers. The curriculum covers the practising of pronunciation...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL
At Level B3 students generally respond to and use the structures and features of English appropriately in an increasing variety of familiar formal and informal contexts. They demonstrate awareness of the register requirements of spoken English necessary for a variety of purposes. They understand...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening
At Level B2 students communicate and learn English in predictable social and learning situations, understanding some de-contextualised English and expressing simple messages in basic English. They negotiate simple transactions and ask and answer basic questions on familiar topics, using familiar...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening
The Level B2 curriculum develops students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their spoken English. Students learn to negotiate simple exchanges in English, combining their understanding of both verbal and non-verbal language. They refine and further develop a wide range of fundamental...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway B: Mid immersion | EAL
At Level B1 students communicate verbally and non-verbally in routine social and classroom situations, understanding controlled English that is supported by its immediate context. They use formulas, well-rehearsed and common sentence patterns, and short, simple utterances to contribute relatively...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening
At Level CL students communicate simply but effectively in English in familiar social and classroom contexts. They communicate using formulaic language; short, simple and well-rehearsed grammatical features; and adaptations of their emerging English repertoire. They use stress and intonation appropriately...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level CL | Speaking and Listening
At Level CL, in familiar contexts, students write short, grammatically simple texts based on well-rehearsed spoken and well-practised written English. They write for a range of basic classroom and personal purposes, such as making lists and writing simple journal entries and notes, and complete...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level CL | Writing
The Level B3 curriculum provides opportunities to enhance students’ knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their spoken English. Students learn to respond to and use English appropriately in a wide range of contexts. The curriculum focuses on pronunciation, stress and intonation in...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway B: Mid immersion | EAL
The Level C2 curriculum supports students to enhance their knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to spoken English. At this level, students learn to initiate and negotiate topics when speaking in English in a range of contexts. The curriculum focuses on pronunciation, stress and intonation...
Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway C: Late immersion | EAL
The English as an Additional Language (EAL) curriculum is central to the learning and development of all young Australians for whom English is not their home language. Through learning EAL, students build their capacity to communicate confidently and effectively. This learning also...
Overview material | English as an Additional Language (EAL)
The English as an Additional Language (EAL) curriculum is organised by pathways, language modes and strands.
The EAL curriculum is a continuum structured as three EAL pathways (A, B, C). Each pathway describes a different stage of English-language learning (early, mid and late), and...
Overview material | English as an Additional Language (EAL)
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
The language modes and strands of the English as an Additional Language (EAL) curriculum are interrelated, and learning in one often supports and extends learning in the others. Each content description contains specific and discrete information identifying what teachers are expected to teach...
Overview material | English as an Additional Language (EAL)
