{"id":4187,"date":"2021-06-28T10:27:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T00:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=4187"},"modified":"2025-07-16T22:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:19:34","slug":"year-7-eal-english-as-an-additional-language","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/year-7-eal-english-as-an-additional-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 7 EAL \u2013 English as an Additional Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Level:<\/strong>\u00a0Year 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Length:<\/strong>\u00a0Full Year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recommended background:&nbsp;<\/strong>This subject is intended for students for whom English is an additional language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Content:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Year 7 EAL aims to further develop student competence in spoken and written English. The course is delivered using the Australian&nbsp;Curriculum. Students develop knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, and writing in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students study the way the English language works and learn to express and develop their ideas in English. Students listen to, read, write, view, respond to, interpret, evaluate and perform a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts designed to entertain, engage, inform and persuade, such as narratives, procedures, reports, discussions and oral presentations. They study a range of texts such as various types of media texts including newspapers, magazines and digital texts, fiction, non-fiction, poetry and dramatic performances. Students develop their understanding of how texts, including media texts, are influenced by context, purpose and audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Assessment:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students\u2019 performance will be determined according to the subject\u2019s Achievement Standards as outlined in the framework of the Australian&nbsp;Curriculum. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes. This includes assessment of achievement in listening, reading, viewing, speaking and writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eligibility criteria apply to this course.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This leads to:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/year-8-eal-english-as-an-additional-language\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"316\"><strong>Year 8 EAL \u2013 English as an additional Language<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Level:\u00a0Year 7 Length:\u00a0Full Year Recommended background:&nbsp;This subject is intended for students for whom English is an additional language. Content: Year 7 EAL aims to further develop student competence in spoken and written English. The course is delivered using the Australian&nbsp;Curriculum. Students develop knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, and writing in English. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6550,"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4187\/revisions\/6550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.uhs.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}