Year 9 EAL – English as an Additional Language

LEVEL: Year 9

LENGTH: Full Year

Recommended background: This subject is intended for students for whom English is an additional language.

Content:

Year 9 EAL aims to further develop student competence in spoken and written English. The course is delivered using the Australian Curriculum. Students develop knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, and writing in English and build on English language skills and understandings from Year 8. They continue to develop their English language proficiency through developing knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating.

Students engage with a variety of texts for enjoyment. They listen to, read, write, view, respond to, interpret, evaluate and perform a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts such as newspapers, films, fiction, non-fiction, reports, discussions and multimodal texts. These texts are designed to entertain, engage, inform and persuade. Students will develop a critical understanding of the contemporary media and the differences between media texts.

Assessment:

Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Achievement Standards as outlined in the framework of the Australian Curriculum. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes. This includes assessment of achievement in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating:

Eligibility criteria apply to this course.

This leads to: Year 10 EAL – English as an additional language