VU23841 - Engage with highly complex texts for learning purposes

Unit code: VU23841 | Study level: TAFE
30
Footscray Nicholson
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to identify short and simple personal strategies for learning. It requires the ability to examine self as a learner and to develop and implement personal learning strategies. This unit is designed for learners who wish to develop their personal, learning skills, build understanding of how they prefer to learn and begin to identify strategies for learning with support. Learners at this level may require support through prompting and advice.

Assessment

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Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • select highly complex texts relevant to own needs and purposes
  • access, navigate and assess digital texts
  • use digital devices safely
  • use search engines to locate texts
  • search for information in a digital environment

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • integrated concepts across syntactically complex texts including multiple clauses in sentences
  • ways in which language is used to make hypotheses and convey implicit meaning to influence others
  • broad vocabulary including idiom, colloquialisms, and cultural references, and specialised vocabulary to support comprehension
  • devices used by writers to convey and influence meaning and achieve purpose
  • register and its influence on expression and meaning in text types
  • reading strategies to make meaning from texts
  • strategies to critically analyse texts.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

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