NATIONAL 4

The Course offers learners opportunities to develop and extend a wide range of skills.

In particular, the Course aims to enable learners to develop the ability to:

♦ Listen, talk, read and write, as appropriate to purpose, audience and context

♦ Understand, analyse and evaluate texts, as appropriate to purpose and audience in the contexts of literature, language and media

♦ Create and produce texts, as appropriate to purpose, audience and context

♦ Plan and research, integrating and applying language skills as appropriate to purpose, audience and context

♦ Apply knowledge of language

Students will complete units throughout the year and will complete the Added Value unit in order to gain the full qualification.

In addition to this students will be given the opportunity to achieve a further level in the Scots Language Award as well as additional SCQF units in Communication.