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• VCEALL670

  Spell most commonly encountered words correctly

  Elaborations

  • learning high-frequency sight words from shared texts and classroom activities
  • recognising common letter patterns in familiar and new words

  VCEALL670 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL645

  Read texts that contain compound and complex sentences of two or three clauses

  Elaborations

  • understanding compound sentences using common coordinating conjunctions (such as ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’) and complex sentences using subordinating conjunctions (such as ‘because’, ‘if’, ‘before’)

  VCEALL645 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL651

  Self-correct pronunciation when reading aloud

  Elaborations

  • applying knowledge of less common sounds and words with similar letter patterns to alter pronunciation
  • seeking assistance from speech partners to re-pronounce words

  VCEALL651 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALA659

  Access new words from bilingual dictionaries or word lists

  Elaborations

  • consulting resources such as bilingual dictionaries, charts, word lists, online tools or peers and the teacher to find new words, or to check spelling and meaning
  • recording new words from texts or interactions in a vocabulary list that includes English, home language and other details such as meaning or phonetic pronunciation

  VCEALA659 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL664

  Use mostly standard word order

  Elaborations

  • constructing short sentences with standard word order
  • writing different sentence types in appropriate contexts, for example statements to answer questions, commands in instructional texts

  VCEALL664 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL629

  Use topic-related compound words to extend vocabulary

  Elaborations

  • rehearsing and repeating learnt topic vocabulary
  • recognising familiar parts of topic-related compound words, such as ‘landform’, ‘earthquake’
  • using topic-related compound words in class discussions or spoken texts, with reference to classroom charts or vocabulary lists

  VCEALL629 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALA619

  Ask for the translation of specific words from other home language speakers

  Elaborations

  • using English, home language and other known languages to seek clarification from same language peers or staff, such as to check context or match concepts
  • checking translations using resources such as bilingual dictionaries, home language texts, online translation tools

  VCEALA619 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALA641

  Check and/or confirm the meaning of unfamiliar words using a bilingual dictionary

  Elaborations

  • using a bilingual dictionary to find an English equivalent for a word known in home language, or vice versa
  • recording spelling, meaning and translations of new words in a personal vocabulary list

  VCEALA641 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL672

  Develop a small range of skills to create and navigate simple digital texts

  Elaborations

  • typing short original texts using letters, common punctuation and symbols
  • editing texts in simple ways, including deleting or inserting words
  • using functions such as zoom or search to read text on a screen
  • following step-by-step instructions to navigate a digital text using menu items or links

  VCEALL672 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Writing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALA658

  Revise text at the word, sentence or whole-text level, based on teacher or peer feedback

  Elaborations

  • responding to feedback at each stage of planning, drafting and editing to make improvements to text structure and language
  • employing a range of strategies to check and correct spelling, for example using the spellchecker function in a software application, dictionaries, word lists

  VCEALA658 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL649

  Use syntactic, logical and cultural cues to work out the meaning of unknown words in a text

  Elaborations

  • using other information in the text, such as syntactical patterns (for example the arrangement of words in sentences ‘The boy jumped happily’ and ‘The boy happily jumped’), consistent use of words and cultural cues to deduce meanings
  • drawing on home language knowledge of culture to deduce meanings of words or phrases

  VCEALL649 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway A: Early immersion - EAL: Level C2 achievement standards - Reading and Viewing

  At Level C2 students read and comprehend a range of short, familiar fictional and factual texts and, when well supported, some unfamiliar texts. These texts may be print or digital texts, including handwritten, visual, multimodal and interactive texts.

  Students show some comprehension beyond...

  Level description | English | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Pathway A: Early immersion | EAL | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing

• VCEALC613

  Extract specific information from spoken or visual texts, using guide questions from the teacher

  Elaborations

  • using questions to identify key words in the text or predict the sequence of information

  VCEALC613 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Speaking and Listening | Communication

• English as an Additional Language (EAL) - Pathway C: Late immersion - EAL: Level C2 description

  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

• VCEALL646

  Identify some basic language features of texts

  Elaborations

  • identifying types of words in a text, for example rhyming words in a poem, causal connectives in an explanation
  • distinguishing between verb tenses used in different text types, such as the imperative in procedures and the past tense in recounts

  VCEALL646 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Reading and Viewing | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALL631

  Self-correct and improve aspects of pronunciation that impede communication

  Elaborations

  • identifying specific words in a text that may pose pronunciation problems, based on specific guidance from the teacher, such as ‘Find all the words ending in “s”’
  • asking for support with communication, such as ‘What is the difference between “walk” and “work”?’

  VCEALL631 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Speaking and Listening | Linguistic Structures and Features

• VCEALA620

  Use home language resources to support use of English

  Elaborations

  • asking same language peers to clarify new vocabulary and ideas
  • referring to home language or bilingual texts, such as glossaries, bilingual dictionaries or online translation tools, for definitions of new vocabulary
  • recording words and information in a personal word list in both home language and English

  VCEALA620 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Speaking and Listening | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness

• VCEALL669

  Use modelled subject-specific vocabulary appropriately

  Elaborations

  • using subject-specific vocabulary accurately in sentences or short modelled texts
  • labelling diagrams or filling in tables using subject-specific vocabulary
  • recording subject-specific vocabulary in an organised way, for example using a word cline, word map or labelled diagram

  VCEALL669 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | 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

• VCEALA660

  Attempt to communicate more complex ideas by drawing on a bilingual dictionary or other home language resources

  Elaborations

  • consulting a bilingual dictionary or home language peers to search for words that communicate nuanced meaning
  • using online translation tools to generate approximate translations, and then improving these based on learnt grammatical patterns

  VCEALA660 | Curriculum content | English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Level C2 | Writing | Cultural and Plurilingual Awareness