LEVEL: Stage 1
SACE Credits: 20 credits
LENGTH: Full Year
Recommended background: EAL is intended for students for whom English is an additional language.
Content:
Stage 1 English as an Additional Language focuses on development and use of skills and strategies in communication, comprehension, language and text analysis and creating texts.
Through studying a variety of oral, written, and multimodal texts, including literary texts, students develop an understanding of text structures and language features. Students explore the relationship between these structures and features and the context, purpose, and audience of texts. Information, ideas, and opinions in texts are identified and interpreted.
Evidence of Learning:
Across two Semesters, students provide evidence of their learning through eight assessments. Each assessment type has a weighting of at least 20%.
Assessment:
Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Performance Standards, as outlined by the SACE Board. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes.
Assessment Type 1: Responding to Texts
- Students complete two written responses to texts and two oral responses to texts. At least two responses must be to literary texts. Students read and view a variety of texts including literary, media, and everyday texts, such as novels, plays, poetry, short stories, biographies, films, documentaries, web texts, social networking texts, and the everyday texts of work, family, and community life.
Assessment Type 2: Interactive Study
Students complete both an interview and a discussion.
- Interview – Students (the interviewers) conduct an oral interview with one or more people about an issue or an aspect of cultural life. Students present the results of their interview in a written report.
- Discussion – Students choose an idea, opinion, or perspective that arises in at least two texts. Students individually present, explain, and discuss with their teacher and/or a small group of students the idea, opinion, or perspective they have studied with reference to the texts.
Assessment Type 3: Language Study
- Students complete two oral, written, or multimodal applied language activities.
- For an applied language activity students identify and analyse the effectiveness of aspects of language used in a variety of texts.
Special Requirements
Students are required to meet the SACE Eligibility Requirements for EAL in order to enrol in this subject. Students should have:
- either – no more than five years of full time schooling in which the medium of instruction was English
- or – more than five years of full time schooling in which the medium of instruction was English but the student’s knowledge of English is restricted.
Results for this course are subject to moderation, at the end of each semester, based on samples of students’ work.
This leads to: Stage 2 EAL – English as an additional language