Unit 2 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Unit 2 focuses on analysing and evaluating perspectives and attitudes presented in texts and creating extended texts for a range of contexts. SAE language skills for effective communication in an expanding range of contexts are consolidated. The use of …
Unit 2 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Bridging Unit 4 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Bridging Unit 4 is aimed at students who are in the late Developing phase of the EAL/D Foundation to Year 10 learning progression. It focuses on responding to and creating connected extended texts in personal, social, community and workplace contexts …
Bridging Unit 4 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 1 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Unit 1 focuses on investigating how language and culture are interrelated and expressed in a range of contexts. A variety of oral, written and multimodal texts are used to develop understanding of text structures and language features. Students explore …
Unit 1 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 3 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Unit 3 focuses on analysing how language choices are used to achieve different purposes and effects in a range of contexts. SAE language skills are developed so that they can be used to describe, inform, express a point of view and persuade for different …
Unit 3 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Unit 4 English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Unit 4 focuses on analysing, evaluating and using language to represent and respond to issues, ideas and attitudes in a range of contexts. By extending and consolidating language and communication skills, critical use of SAE for a range of contexts, purposes …
Unit 4 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Rationale/Aims English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Rationale English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) focuses on language learning and the explicit teaching of the structure, linguistic features and sociolinguistic and sociocultural aspects of Standard Australian English (SAE). Through close …
Rationale/Aims | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Structure of English as an Additional Language or Dialect English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Units 1–4 Unit 1 focuses on investigating how language and culture are interrelated and expressed in a range of contexts. A variety of oral, written and multimodal texts are used to develop understanding of text structures and language features. The relationship …
Structure of English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Texts English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Teachers will use an array of material in class. Texts include literary texts, fiction and non-fiction, media texts, everyday texts, and workplace texts, from increasingly complex and unfamiliar settings, ranging from the everyday language of personal …
Texts | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Language table English as an Additional Language or Dialect
Key language skills for EAL/D The key language skills described below provide a focus for language instruction in any unit at students’ point of need and should be taught in context and if relevant. Students should be given the opportunity to develop …
Language table | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
Representation of General capabilities English as an Additional Language or Dialect
General capabilities covered in EAL/D include: Literacy, Numeracy, Information and communication technology (ICT) capability, Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability, Ethical understanding and Intercultural understanding. Literacy Literacy …
Representation of General capabilities | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEA004
understanding and using some common cultural references, idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms, and culturally accepted politeness conventions and protocols in different contexts
ACEEA004 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEA009
defining common cultural references and implied meanings in texts
ACEEA009 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEA017
analysing how language reflects cultural constructions of groupings or ideas such as age, gender, race and identity
ACEEA017 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEA031
understanding common cultural references, conceptual metaphors and connotations
ACEEA031 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEA038
interpreting cultural references and implied meanings in texts
ACEEA038 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEA059
using cultural references, idioms and colloquialisms
ACEEA059 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEA064
explaining cultural beliefs and assumptions reflected in texts
ACEEA064 | Content Descriptions | Unit 3 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEA095
analysing how culturally based representations of concepts such as knowledge or authority are conveyed
ACEEA095 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEA101
using culturally specific phrases, idioms, collocations and references
ACEEA101 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum
ACEEA108
understanding common cultural gestures and behaviours used by SAE speakers; for example, nods, eye contact, and non-verbal behaviour such as turn-taking and the distance deemed appropriate when engaging in conversation.
ACEEA108 | Content Descriptions | Bridging Unit 1 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum