CORE: English EAL
English as an Additional Language

Year 9

What is the subject about

The Year 9 EAL course aims to build students’ understanding of how spoken and written Standard Australian English (SAE) is used to communicate effectively in a variety of contexts and for a range of purposes. Through the EAL-informed approach to differentiation in teaching, students are supported by an EAL teacher to develop and extend the ability to listen, speak, read and write for everyday and academic purposes.

Course ideas:

Semester 1 - creating and crafting narrative texts about "Identity and belonging"

- understanding and presenting about "Whose Reality"

Semester 2 - viewing and analysing about a multimodal text of "encountering conflict"

- creating and crafting texts about 'imaginary landscapes"

Skills you will develop

reading and engaging with a text for meaning
recognising and using vocabulary, text structures, language features and ideas appropriate to the purpose of a text
develop and employ writing processes
applying appropriate conventions of language, including spelling, vocabulary, syntax and forms, for a range of academic purposes
identifying and discussing the language, structures, features, conventions and information used in media texts to construct points of view and position audiences
identifying and using common characteristics of verbal and paralinguistic features of SAE

Assessment

student-created texts
oral discussions
oral presentations

Pathways

The study aims to prepare students for their study of VCE Units 1-4 English/ EAL, as well as their further English-language education, tertiary or vocational education, and future employment.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites required.