VU23551 - Participate in complex spoken interactions for study purposes

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Unit code: VU23551 | Study level: TAFE
Credit points
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Location
Footscray Nicholson
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
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Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required by EAL learners to participate in and respond to complex spoken interactions which include discussion of ideas and opinions with others in study contexts.
The outcomes described in this unit relate to:

  • the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). They contribute directly to the achievement of Indicators of competence in Oral Communication at Level 4, and
  • the ISLPR (International Second Language Proficiency Ratings) descriptors for Speaking and Listening. They contribute directly to the achievement of ISLPR Speaking 3 / 3+ and Listening 3 / 3+.
    This unit applies to EAL learners wishing to develop speaking and listening skills in English in contexts related to further study. The study contexts in which these skills are applied are varied, and can be related to a range of further study, Higher Education or Vocational Education and Training (VET) contexts and fields.Contexts may include fields in which specialised or technical language is used.

Assessment

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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:

  • participate effectively in two complex and sustained group interactions, including one based on a study task, to convey and respond to information on topics related to a study context including:
  • applying appropriate discourse strategies to convey and respond to complex information
  • using register appropriate to the context
  • review own participation in above interactions.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • vocabulary and terminology specific to the identified topic or further study area for example content words, collocations and phrasal verbs, such as take into account,
  • compound sentences and complex sentences with subordinate clauses
  • verb tenses and verb forms, such as present perfect continuous, past perfect, conditional, future, active and passive forms
  • modal forms, such as could have, might have, should have, may have
  • reported speech using different verb forms
  • adjectives, adverbs, adverbial phrases and prepositional phrases to describe and convey information and expand on ideas
  • spoken discourse strategies to convey spoken text
  • conversational/discourse linkers and markers to develop and express ideas and their relationship to each other, to interpret and convey meaning, signal intention and opinion, such as anyway, so, well then, I mean
  • conjunctions to convey relationships for example time, cause and effect, contrast, condition, such as if, unless
  • question types, such as open ended questions, direct questions to elicit specific information or longer responses, hypothetical questions, rhetorical questions.
    Sociolinguistic and Cultural Knowledge:
  • register and style used in complex spoken interactions appropriate for further study context
  • language nuances, such as idioms, irony and sarcasm as they relate to spoken texts relevant to further study
  • purpose of paralinguistic features of spoken text, such as pitch, intonation and stress
  • 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 the VU Polytechnic and/or via the Victoria University Polytechnic e-Learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate IV in EAL (Further Study)
22646VIC | Certificate iv | Duration:

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