VU23548 - Listen and take notes for study purposes
Nominal hours
Location
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required by EAL learners to listen to, analyse and use note-taking skills to record information from straightforward spoken texts relevant to study purposes.
The outcomes described in this unit relate to:
- the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). They contribute directly to the achievement of ACSF indicators of competence in Oral Communication and Writing at Level 3, and
- the ISLPR (International Second Language Proficiency Ratings) descriptors for Speaking and Listening. They contribute directly to the achievement of Speaking 2+/3, Listening 2+/3 and Writing 2+/3.This unit applies to learners needing to develop their English language listening and note-taking skills to satisfy further study needs. The study situations in which these skills are applied are varied, and can be related to a range of further study or higher education contexts.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & 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:
- listen to and analyse two straightforward spoken texts each related to a study task and for each text:
- assess usefulness of information for relevance to each study task
- take notes from each text using appropriate methods to record information including identifying key ideas and details
- review notes and seek and respond to feedback to improve written notes.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
- vocabulary for straightforward topics related to study contexts or tasks
- verb tenses and aspect forms, such as the present perfect continuous and past perfect, passive voice and conditional such as with if and unless
- discourse markers, connectives and cohesive devices used in spoken text to link ideas and concepts, add information or contrast ideas, such as in addition, therefore, as a result, finally
- dependent clauses introduced by words, such as although, when, if, while
- modal forms including negative, such as may, may not, should, should not
- adverbial phrases, prepositions and prepositional phrases to convey the relationship between ideas, time and location
- how tone, stress and intonation modify meaning
- methods to take notes.
Sociolinguistic and Cultural Knowledge: - aspects of the spoken discourse culture as it relates to how information is presented, such as in speeches, lectures and other spoken texts relevant to further study
- some colloquial expressions or idioms used in spoken texts in further study contexts
- cues for inferred meaning, such as logical, contextual and paralinguistic such as pause, stress, use of silence.
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.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):