VU23843 - Engage with highly complex texts to participate in the community

Unit code: VU23843 | 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 highly complex texts for community participation purposes. It requires the ability to interpret, synthesise, critically evaluate and analyse highly complex texts which are relevant to participation in the community. This unit is designed for those who have the ability to read highly complex, lexically dense texts across a broad range of contexts with some specialisation who are seeking to read sophisticated texts for community participation purposes. Learners at this level work autonomously and use and evaluate a broad range of support resources.

Assessment

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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 highly complex texts relevant to own needs and purposes
  • access, navigate and assess 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:

  • integrated concepts across syntactically complex texts including multiple clauses in sentences
  • the ways in which language is used to make hypotheses and convey implicit meaning to influence others
  • broad or specialised vocabulary related to community participation to support comprehension including cultural references as appropriate
  • devices used by writers to convey and influence meaning and achieve purpose
  • register and its influence on expression and meaning in text types
  • reading strategies to make meaning from texts
  • strategies to critically analyse texts.

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 III in General Education for Adults
22692VIC | Certificate iii | Duration:

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