VU23552 - Take notes from complex spoken texts 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, analyse and take notes from complex and sustained spoken texts in further study contexts.
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 at Level 4 and Writing at Level 4, and
- the ISLPR (International Second Language Proficiency Ratings) descriptors for Listening and Writing. They contribute directly to the achievement of, Listening 3/3+ and Writing 3/3+.
This unit applies to EAL learners wishing to develop their English language listening and note-taking skills to satisfy further study needs.
The study contexts in which these skills are applied are varied, and can be related to a range of further study, Vocational Education and Training (VET) or Higher Education context.
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 and evaluate the relevance of two complex and sustained spoken texts relevant to study contexts including analysing the discourse features used in each text
- write and review notes for the above spoken texts including notes for a specific study task using appropriate note-taking strategies.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
- vocabulary, including specialist vocabulary related to areas of technical content and specific fields of study, such as content words, phrasal verbs and collocations
- compound sentences and complex sentences with subordinate clauses within complex and sustained spoken texts
- verb tenses and verb forms, such as active and passive , present perfect continuous, past perfect, conditional, future
- modal forms, using a range of verb forms, such as could have, could have had
- reported speech in spoken texts, using verb forms to relate supporting evidence and acknowledge or confirm views or arguments, such as: According to Smith…
- adjectives, adverbs, adverbial phrases and prepositional phrases used in complex spoken text
- discourse markers used in spoken texts to develop and express ideas and their relationship to each other, convey meaning and signal intention or resulting action
- spoken discourse strategies to convey spoken text
- note-taking methods used in further study contexts, such as paraphrasing, synthesising key points.
Sociolinguistic and Cultural Knowledge: - how paralinguistic features of speech such as tone, intonation and stress are used to convey meaning in complex spoken texts
- register and style in complex spoken texts
- language nuances used in spoken texts, such as idioms, irony and sarcasm, understatement, hyperbole to exaggerate information to make a point or show emphasis
- cues used for inferred meaning, such as logical, contextual and paralinguistic cues.
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):