VU23822 - Engage with complex texts to participate in the community

Unit code: VU23822 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours
30
Location
Footscray Nicholson
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to engage with complex texts which are relevant to participation in the community. It requires the ability to analyse and critically evaluate structurally complex texts which are relevant to community participation needs. It applies to those seeking to improve their community participation options and who need to extend their reading skills for application in a community context.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and 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:

  • select, analyse and critically evaluate structurally complex texts relevant to own purposes
  • access and navigate digital texts
  • use digital devices safely
  • use search engines to locate texts
  • search for information in a digital environment

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • complex syntactic structures with multiple clauses including use of abstract meaning, modality and complex tenses
  • linking devices to demonstrate conceptual connections and/or causal relationships
  • reading strategies to make meaning from texts
  • vocabulary related to community contexts including some specialised vocabulary to support comprehension
  • techniques used by writers to convey meaning and achieve purpose
  • factors that influence a text such as an author's culture, experiences and value system
  • ways in which punctuation conveys emotions or intentions
  • strategies to critically analyse the validity of information in texts
  • differences in how paper based and digital information is represented

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):

Certificate II in General Education for Adults
22691VIC | Certificate ii | Duration:

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