VU23571 - Research significant events in Australian history
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 investigate and become familiar with significant events of Australia’s political and social history and their impact on Australian history and society.
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 for Reading and Writing at Level 4, and
- the ISLPR (International Second Language Proficiency Ratings) descriptors for Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing. They contribute directly to the achievement of ISLPR Reading 3/3+ and Writing 3/3+.
This unit applies to learners needing to develop their English language skills to support personal or further study educational pathways.This unit is designed for integration and contextualisation with language units to support achievement of English language knowledge and skills.
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:
- analyse two key periods or events in Australian history and their impacts on Australian history or society
- produce a report comprising several coherently linked paragraphs which examines one major event or period in Australia’s history.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
- vocabulary to describe events in Australian history
- compound sentences and complex sentences with subordinate clauses
- verb tenses, such as the present perfect continuous and past perfect, passive voice and conditional
- modal forms, such as could have, would have, should have
- discourse markers, connectives, pronouns and cohesive devices to link ideas and concepts, add information or contrast ideas
- paragraph structure to communicate complex relationships between ideas
- structure and format of reports.
Sociolinguistic and Cultural Knowledge: - aspects of Australia's history and their significance
- register, styles and conventions in written discourse
- use of fact and opinion, irony, understatement or exaggeration in texts
- cues such as syntactic, semantic, logical, contextual to work out meaning of text
- processes of planning, drafting and review.
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):