English as an Additional Language (EAL)

COURSE CONTENT

Scope of Study

In this course students make personal connections with, and explore the vocabulary, text structures, language features and ideas in a text. Students read or view a text, engaging with the ideas, concerns and tensions, and recognise ways vocabulary, text structures, language features and conventions of a text work together to create meaning. Students demonstrate an understanding of effective and cohesive writing through the crafting of their own texts designed for a specific context and audience to achieve a stated purpose; and to describe individual decisions made about the vocabulary, text structures, language features and conventions used during writing processes. Students also explore and analyse persuasive texts within the context of a contemporary issue, including the ways argument and language can be used to position an audience.


Semester One

Semester Two

PATHWAYS INTO VCE OR VCE VM


VCE: English and Literature

VCE VM:  Literacy


*EAL is English as an additional Language.

This was formally called ESL.


*EAL applicants - Contact Janice Muraca (VASS co-ordinator) janice.muraca@education.vic.gov.au to confirm eligibility in 2024 and beyond. 


All students who have been living in an English speaking country for less than 5 years and were NOT instructed in English in their previous country of residency qualify for EAL.

You will be asked to provide evidence.