VCE English as an Additional Language (EAL) study guide
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VCE English as an Additional Language (EAL) is a Victorian Certificate of Education study designed for students whose first language is not English and who are assessed on their ability to read, respond to, create and analyse texts in English. It suits students completing secondary schooling in Victoria who need an English pathway that recognises the particular demands of studying in an additional language. The VCE English as an Additional Language (EAL) study guide has 4 sections and about 1,332 words.
01Reading and Responding: Building an Evidence-Based Interpretation
Reading and responding asks you to show that you can make meaning from unfamiliar texts and support your reading with evidence. The core concepts are purpose and audience , tone and register , point of view and voice , structure and sequencing , language choices (connotation, imagery, figurative language, repetition, sentence length), and how these combine to position a reader .
353 words, about 2 min02Creating Texts: Crafting Purposeful, Controlled Writing
Creating texts requires you to write in a chosen form for a specified audience and purpose, drawing on a stimulus or mentor text. The concepts you must control are form and genre conventions (letter, editorial, speech, narrative, feature article, blog), audience and register , voice and persona , structure and cohesion , sentence variety and rhythm , and deliberate language choices (imagery, motif, rhetorical devices, vocabulary).
344 words, about 2 min03Analysing Argument: Mapping Persuasion and Its Effects
Analysing argument asks you to examine how a writer or speaker attempts to persuade an audience. You must understand contention and supporting arguments , structure and sequencing (how the argument develops), tone and shifts in tone , appeals (to logic, emotion, authority, values, fairness), evidence and its use , and language devices (inclusive language, repetition, rhetorical questions, anecdote, statistics, imagery, irony).
320 words, about 2 min04Listening to Texts: Active Comprehension and Analysis
Listening to texts assesses your ability to comprehend and analyse spoken texts such as interviews, speeches, radio segments, podcasts, and discussions. The concepts are main ideas and supporting detail , purpose and context , speaker roles and relationships , tone of voice and delivery (pace, stress, pause, volume, pitch), structure and signposting , register and idiom , and persuasive or interactional strategies (turn-taking, hedging, anecdote, direct address).
315 words, about 2 min