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

  At Level C4 students compare and make judgments about different texts (such as texts on the same topic by different authors) and read a wide range of accessible and culturally appropriate texts from across the curriculum with a high degree of independence. These texts may be print or digital texts...

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

• 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 B: Mid immersion - EAL: Level BL achievement standards - Speaking and Listening

  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

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway C: Late immersion - EAL: Level C4 description

  The Level C4 curriculum supports students to expand their knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to their spoken English in order to make them more autonomous users of language. At this level, students learn to use their expanding vocabulary and knowledge of a broad range of grammatical...

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

• VCEALA010

  Use acceptable social formulas and gestures to interact appropriately in context

  Elaborations

  • listening to and observing others to understand the nature of familiar social interactions
  • demonstrating a range of appropriate gestures including nodding, shaking head, raising hand
  • recalling and using common social formulas, such as ‘thank you’, ‘excuse me’, ‘please’

  VCEALA010 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALA328

  Respond appropriately in some contexts

  Elaborations

  • listening to and observing others to understand the nature of familiar social interactions
  • adapting social expressions to suit the conversation partner, for example saying ‘Hi’ to a friend and ‘Good morning’ to a teacher

  VCEALA328 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALC483

  Comprehend some familiar questions with support from the speaker

  Elaborations

  • comprehending questions on familiar topics, such as self and family
  • understanding common question words, such as ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’
  • relying on some accommodations, such as slow and deliberate speech, simple phrasing, repetition and paraphrasing

  VCEALC483 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• 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

• VCEALC546

  Communicate needs in common social and school routines

  Elaborations

  • asking questions and following instructions to meet personal needs, such as where to find resources or what colour pen to use
  • understanding common words for social and school purposes, such as ‘I would like …’, ‘I need some help’

  VCEALC546 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• VCEALC245

  Identify some key points of information in short spoken texts, with guidance

  Elaborations

  • understanding learnt vocabulary and sentence structures in texts
  • pointing to parts of pictures that are mentioned in the text or conversation
  • using questions to help identify relevant items of information, for example Teacher: ‘What colour was it?’ Student: ‘It was blue’

  VCEALC245 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | 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

• VCEALL339

  Self-correct pronunciation and grammar

  Elaborations

  • assessing the listener’s understanding based on body language, facial expressions and direct feedback
  • seeking assistance from speech partners to re-pronounce words or rephrase sentences
  • attempting to self-correct pronunciation and grammar

  VCEALL339 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL579

  Identify what is being referred to by simple cohesive devices in a simple informative text

  Elaborations

  • understanding common coordinating conjunctions (such as ‘and’, ‘but’) and subordinating conjunctions (such as ‘as’, ‘when’)
  • matching cohesive devices (such as ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘those’) to the items they refer to

  VCEALL579 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• 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

• VCEALL413

  Adapt speech to suit a variety of registers

  Elaborations

  • listening to and observing situations to understand the register and topic
  • formulating appropriate ways of expressing a message to suit the situation, for example using formal or informal expression, technical or everyday vocabulary

  VCEALL413 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL290

  Use a range of cues to support reading and viewing

  Elaborations

  • using information from images and headings to support understanding of the topic
  • using organisational features to navigate a text, for example titles and headings in a print text, or links and navigational items in a digital text, including multimodal and interactive texts

  VCEALL290 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL642

  Identify different forms of texts

  Elaborations

  • understanding the basic structure of a range of texts used at school, such as narrative, information report, essay, poetry
  • identifying features of layout and content organisation in a text, such as title and chapter headings
  • labelling features of a text or sequencing parts

  VCEALL642 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL648

  Recognise common vocabulary and learnt topic-specific vocabulary from different curriculum areas

  Elaborations

  • understanding words learnt from classroom interactions and texts
  • recognising in an unfamiliar text topic-specific vocabulary that has been learnt in other curriculum areas, for example ‘angle’, ‘primary’, ‘foul’

  VCEALL648 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL415

  Respond appropriately to structures through word order and vocabulary rather than through intonation

  Elaborations

  • understanding vocabulary and word order for structures, such as questions, statements and negation
  • using question words rather than intonation to indicate a question; for example ‘Do you …?’, ‘What is …?’, ‘Can anybody …?’

  VCEALL415 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B3 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features