Tawa College Tawa College

English Language Learners: Emerging

ELLE
Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Mrs A. Curtis, Mr J. Salter.

English Language Learners (Beginning / Emerging) - Level 1
The English Language Learners’ Beginner course is a full-year multilevel class that is designed for students who need foundational English support to cope with mainstream classes. This is for students with minimal or no English language proficiency.

This foundational course assists students with their language development, comprehension and writing skills. It is aimed at students who are new to learning English.

There is an emphasis on developing students’ speaking and listening skills, as well as learning strategies for improving reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition. Students are supported in developing their writing, with a focus on different genre, such as information texts, recounts and opinion writing.

There is diagnostic testing throughout the year to monitor the students' progression. Students are informed individually about their progress.

Goals:

  • Build foundational vocabulary and basic grammatical structures.

  • Develop basic communication skills for everyday situations.

  • Enhance listening comprehension through simple, repetitive listening activities.

  • Introduce reading and writing through simple texts and sentence construction




Course Overview

Term 1
This course responds to the language needs of the learners therefore there is some level and diagnostic testing in Term 1. After that, students work intensively on vocabulary aquisisition, listening, reading, speaking and writing to grow and strengthen their English language. Simple and clear communication and understanding is the main focus of this part of the course.

Term 2
Students continue to develop their English skills using a structured literacy approach alongside communicative activities.

Term 3
Students continue to develop their English skills using a structured literacy approach alongside communicative activities.
Senior students in this class may be able to attempt an ELL unit standard (Level 1) by this term.

Term 4
Students continue to develop their English skills using a structured literacy approach alongside communicative activities.
Students should be able to move into ELLD in the following year.

Learning Areas:

Year 9 Courses, Languages


Pathway

English Language Learners: Developing, English Language Learners: Proficient

This course will lead to ELL Developing (Level 2) course.



			
					
					Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
										
1B8 Exercise book

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