VCE Units 3 & 4 - English / English as an Additional Language (EAL)
VCE Units 3 & 4 - English / English as an Additional Language (EAL)
Overview
Units 3 & 4 English/EAL continues to develop and seeks to consolidate the knowledge and skills students have acquired and explored through VCE English in the key discipline concepts of language, literature and literacy, and the language modes of listening, speaking, reading, viewing, and writing. Through engagement with these texts, students draw out possible meanings from the texts for deeper engagement and understanding. Students then develop their own responses to these texts from personal engagement through to critical analysis, applying and refining their capacity for inferential reading and viewing as they grapple with many possible levels of meaning that can be extracted by a reader.
Unit 3
In this unit, students read and respond to texts analytically and creatively, building their engagement with texts through critical analysis as well as imaginative responses. In doing so, they develop their understanding of various textual elements and their function in creating meaning.
Areas of Study
- Reading and Responding to Texts: In this area of study, students apply reading and viewing strategies to critically engage with a text, considering its dynamics and complexities and reflecting on the motivations of its characters.
- Creating Texts: In this area of study, students read and engage imaginatively and critically with mentor texts, and effective and cohesive writing within identified contexts to shape their own writing.
Unit 4
In this unit students consolidate their reading and writing skills, considering the ways authors construct meaning, present ideas, concerns and conflicts in order to communicate with audiences. In doing so, they develop their capacity to analyse both fiction, non-fiction and persuasive texts.
Areas of Study
- Reading and Responding to Texts: In this area of study, students further sharpen their skills of reading and viewing texts, developed in the corresponding area of study in Unit 3. Students consolidate their capacity to critically analyse texts and deepen their understanding of the ideas and values a text can convey.
- Analysing Argument: In this area of study, students analyse the use of argument and language, and visuals in texts that debate a contemporary and significant national or international issue.
Forms of Assessment
Creative response, informative response/summaries, analytical response, argument analysis, point of view presentation (oral).
Prerequisites and Corequisites
Students must have satisfied the work requirements of at least one of the VCE Units 1 and 2 Englishes.