TCE English as an Additional Language or Dialect Level 2

TCE English as an Additional Language or Dialect Level 2

What will I learn?

There is a focus on language learning and the explicit teaching of the structure, linguistic features and sociolinguistic and sociocultural aspects of Standard Australian English (SAE). Through close study of language and literature, students of EAL/D explore their own and others’ personal, social and cultural identities. They develop skills that enable them to use different registers of spoken and written SAE so they can communicate effectively and for a variety of purposes. 

EAL/D provides opportunities for students to engage reflectively and critically with a broad range of spoken, written and multimodal texts (including literary and non-literary texts, for example academic, every day and workplace texts). Students learn to create (individually and collaboratively) increasingly complex texts for different purposes and audiences in different forms, modes and mediums.

Why should I consider this course?

Access to this course is restricted to learners:

• for whom English is a second language or an additional language or dialect; and
• who have had no more than a total of six years of formal education in a school where English is the major language of instruction; and
• who have been resident in Australia for no more than six calendar years immediately before January 1 of the year in which this course is to be taken.

What Skills does this course provide?

Senior secondary English courses aim to develop learners’:

• skills in listening, speaking, reading, viewing and writing
• capacity to create texts for a range of purposes, audiences and contexts
• understanding and appreciation of different uses of language.

In addition, English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) aims to develop learners’:

• understanding of the relationships between language, texts and ways of thinking and knowing in SAE
• ability to communicate ideas, feelings, attitudes and information appropriately in and through SAE across the curriculum areas
• inferential comprehension, critical analysis and reflection skills

What Pathway Options does this course provide?

English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Level 2 provides a pathway to the Level 3 course. Successful completion of the Level 3 course may lead to study at tertiary level and a variety of vocational education and training qualifications.