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• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level B2 achievement standards - 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

• English | English as an Additional Language (EAL): Rationale and Aims

  Rationale

  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)

• English | English: Learning in English

  Students develop knowledge, understanding and skills across the strands of Language, Literature and Literacy. Each strand contributes its own distinctive goals, body of knowledge, history of ideas and interests to the study of English. 

  Learning about and using language

  In the Language...

  Overview material | English

• English | English: Structure

  The English curriculum is organised by language modes and strands.

  Language Modes

  The language modes are interrelated and the learning in one often supports and extends learning of the others. Each content description has been placed in the mode which is the major focus of its learning.

  Classroom...

  Overview material | English

• English: Level 1 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level 1, students understand the different purposes of texts. They make connections to personal experience when explaining characters and main events in short texts. They identify that texts serve different purposes and that this affects how they are organised. They are able to read...

  Level description | English | Level 1 | Reading and Viewing

• English: Level 3 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level 3, students understand how content can be organised using different text structures depending on the purpose of the text. They understand how language features, images and vocabulary choices are used for different effects. They read texts that contain varied sentence structures...

  Level description | English | Level 3 | Reading and Viewing

• English: Level 7 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  By the end of Level 7, students understand how text structures can influence the complexity of a text and are dependent on audience, purpose and context. They demonstrate understanding of how the choice of language features, images and vocabulary affects meaning. They explain issues and ideas...

  Level description | English | Level 7 | Reading and Viewing

• English: Level A description

  In Level A, students begin to engage, participate and receive communication with known adults, teachers and peers. Opportunities are provided for students to explore English knowledge, understanding, skills and processes through everyday experiences, personal interests and significant events....

  Level description | English

• 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

• VCEALC297

  Write ‘real world’ texts

  Elaborations

  • making a list of items to take on excursion, using the names of familiar objects
  • writing a letter introducing themselves, using some formulaic expressions such as ‘Dear …’, ‘I live in …’
  • writing a simple story to share with the class, based on listening to a story told at home

  VCEALC297 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Writing | Communication

• VCEALL256

  Use a small range of descriptive language

  Elaborations

  • using a range of adjectives to express affect (‘frightened’, ‘surprised’), judgement (‘naughty’, ‘brave’) and appreciation (‘interesting’, ‘amazing’)
  • forming simple noun groups that combine one or two adjectives with a noun, for example ‘hot day’, ‘scary old house’
  • formulating short adverbial phrases, such as ‘on my bike’, ‘with his brother’, ‘every week’

  VCEALL256 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL018

  Communicate using short, learnt phrases

  Elaborations

  • using single-word or phrasal responses to questions, such as ‘Yes’, ‘No’, ‘I don’t know’
  • using learnt phrases in play, such as ‘Give me’, ‘Stop it’, ‘I don’t like’
  • creating original utterances by substituting new words in learnt patterns or formulas, such as ‘It’s home time’, ‘It’s go time’
  • using simplified speech patterns, where function words may be omitted or used incorrectly, for example ‘Me go to shopping and buyed many thing’

  VCEALL018 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL177

  Use common descriptive language

  Elaborations

  • using common adjectives to express affect (‘sad’, ‘happy’, ‘angry’), judgement (‘kind’, ‘mean’) and appreciation (‘beautiful’, ‘yucky’)
  • combining some common adverbs with verbs to describe action, for example ‘walk slowly’, ‘sing well’

  VCEALL177 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level BL | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL536

  Write sentences that reflect oral language with some examples of correct word order

  Elaborations

  • writing short, simple expressions to label personal drawings, reflecting an early stage of oral language development, such as ‘Live here’, ‘Go to play’
  • writing sentences with a level of detail that may not follow standard word order, such as ‘We went yesterday to the supermarket’, ‘My friend and me we see car blue’

  VCEALL536 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level CL | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL102

  Apply some grammatical rules but may overgeneralise for irregular forms

  Elaborations

  • expressing simple questions mostly accurately, including ‘wh–’ questions such as ‘Where did you live before?’ or yes/no questions such as ‘Is that my book?’
  • expressing statements and commands mostly accurately, such as ‘She went home’, ‘Please give it to me’
  • using correct verb and noun endings with some consistency, such as ‘–ing’, ‘–ed’, ‘–s’
  • overgeneralising some rules, such as formation of plurals (for example ‘mouses’) and past tenses (for example ‘swimmed’, ‘buyed’)
  • understanding some common phrases or clauses in both their full and contracted forms, such as ‘I’m’ and ‘I am’; ‘you’re’ and ‘you are’

  VCEALL102 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL333

  Describe and identify people, places and things using simple vocabulary for colour, size, place, location, time

  Elaborations

  • using a small range of descriptive vocabulary to communicate about specific people, places and things, for example ‘the big red book’, ‘a park near my house’
  • building simple noun phrases to describe specific people, places and things

  VCEALL333 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level B2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL071

  Label drawings of everyday personal activities using language learnt in the classroom

  Elaborations

  • using drawings as a basis for oral explanations or captioning using simple writing, such as ‘live here’, ‘play’, ‘study’
  • writing the names of items depicted in images
  • copying and completing short, formulaic sentences to describe images, such as ‘This is a …’
  • choosing a sentence from a class text to use as a caption for an image

  VCEALL071 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level A1 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCELA024

  Use sounds and facial expressions to affect familiar others

  Elaborations

  • encountering various languages and forms of communication at home, school and in the community
  • experiencing others engaging, communicating and changing things in the world around them
  • reacting to the sounds and voices of familiar others
  • reacting to a range of gestures, signs, images and facial features of familiar others
  • using sounds, noises, gestures, eye gaze etc. to gain attention or request an object, e.g. reaching towards something they want
  • turning towards a communication partner

  VCELA024 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA025

  Respond to a familiar person and engage with them

  Elaborations

  • being exposed to individuals interpreting their actions and sounds
  • experiencing people reacting and engaging with each other and them
  • learning to control their behaviour, e.g. moving, making sounds,
  • making eye contact, sound or gesture towards a familiar other during a communicative process
  • gaining another’s attention through sounds and or action
  • communicating physical need, for example hungry or tired through sounds and/or action

  VCELA025 | Curriculum content | English | Level A | Speaking and Listening | Language

• VCELA236

  Identify language that can be used for appreciating texts and the qualities of people and things

  Elaborations

  • exploring how language is used to express feelings including learning vocabulary to express a gradation of feeling, for example ‘happy’, ‘joyful’, ‘pleased’, ‘contented’
  • exploring in stories, everyday and media texts moral and social dilemmas; such as right and wrong, fairness/unfairness, inclusion and exclusion; learning to use language to describe actions and consider consequences
  • exploring how language is used to construct characters and settings in narratives, including choice of nouns such as ‘girl’, ‘princess’ or ‘orphan’, and choice of adjectives such as ‘gentle’, ‘timid’ or ‘frightened’

  VCELA236 | Curriculum content | English | Level 2 | Speaking and Listening | Language