VU23555 - Use language analysis skills to review own texts
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 use language analysis skills and knowledge of language structure and use to review own written texts for further 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 for Reading, Writing, Oral Communication and Learning 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 Speaking 3 / 3+ and Listening 3 / 3+, Reading 3 / 3+ and Writing 3 / 3+.This unit applies to EAL learners wishing to develop their English language analysis skills for the purpose of reviewing and refining own written texts in a further study context. 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) 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:
- use available language references to analyse no less than five different language items in each of two of own written texts
- apply grammatical knowledge to edit, refine and modify own language use in each of the above texts
- maintain own records of relevant grammatical information for future study purposes.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
This includes application of linguistic, sociolinguistic and cultural knowledge appropriate to the context of the task including:
- metalanguage to describe lexical, semantic, grammatical features and their uses for example:
- verb tenses and their names, such as simple, perfect continuous, such as have been melting, active and passive, conditional, such as if and unless
- phrasal verbs, adverbs, adverbial phrases and adjectives
- modals
- conjunctions and connectives,
- reported speech using different verb forms
- discourse / sequence markers
- features of genres and register used in further study discourse
- English language references, such as dictionaries, thesaurus, textbooks, digital references
- purposes for conducting language analysis of own work.
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):