English as an Additional Language or Dialect

Year Level: Year 12
Codes: FTELD
SCSA Syllabus link:

Year 12 Foundation EAL/D
Program Information:

A year 12 student can enrol in the Foundation EAL/D Course if they have eligibility approval from the teacher and school principal. For a student to be approved, the school must complete and retain the required documentation and supporting evidence.

EAL/D courses are for students who meet one of the criteria listed below:

  • who were born outside of Australia and/or their first language is not English OR
  • who are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, or from Cocos Island or Christmas Island, and are acquiring Standard Australian English as an additional language/dialect OR
  • who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and communicate using signing, such as Auslan, as their first language.

This course recommends minimum level 1b on the EAL/D Progress Map for Late Adolescence.

Ref: https://senior-secondary.scsa.wa.edu.au/syllabus-and-support-materials/english/english-as-an-additional-language-or-dialect
Course Content Description:

The EAL/D course is designed for students who speak another language or dialect as their first or ‘home’ language. The thematic focus for Year 12 Foundation EAL/D is life skills and choices.

Unit 3 focuses on students responding to and creating cohesive texts in familiar contexts in Standard Australian English (SAE). Students engage with familiar and some unfamiliar texts to develop language skills for effective communication in SAE in most social, familiar and some community situations.

Unit 4 focuses on students responding to and creating extended texts in personal, social, community and workplace contexts in Standard Australian English (SAE). The ability to use SAE language skills to communicate for a range of purposes and audiences is evident in the creation of oral, written and multimodal texts required in the workplace and some academic contexts.

In the course over both units, students will:

  • participate in and maintain oral and written communication in a variety of contexts
  • demonstrate literal and some inferential comprehension of information and ideas used in texts
  • examine a growing range of texts to identify and discuss text structures and language features
  • use SAE with some accuracy to create oral, written and multimodal texts with increasing awareness of context, purpose and audience.
Recommended Background: Year 11 Foundation English or EAL/D, Intensive English Centre
Mode of Delivery: In Moodle and live, online lessons
Textbooks / Stationery: Refer to the Booklist - Personal Items and Resource List
External Examination: Externally Set Task (EST) compulsory in Term 2 Year 12
General Pathway: WACE Graduation
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