Estimated Cost: $80
Predicted cost for 2020
Course Outline
The EAL/D courses are designed for students who speak another language or dialect as their first or ‘home’ language. EAL/D focuses on development of the competent use of Standard Australian
English (SAE) in a range of contexts. The EAL/D ATAR course develops academic English skills to prepare students for tertiary study.
The concepts studied in this course are complex and require depth of understanding and hard work. This is an ATAR course, however, it is recognised that students who have English as an additional language typically develop oral language skills more rapidly than written language skills and the assessments in this course reflect this fact. Assessments include a high percentage of listening and speaking tasks. Students who have good oral skills and understanding will benefit greatly from this approach.
Minimum Entrance Requirements
Eligibility for enrolment in English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EALD)
Students who speak English as a second language may apply to enrol in an EALD course in Year 11. Students must complete an application form at the end of Year 10 and it is the responsibility of individual students to complete this form accurately. This Eligibility Application Form must be forwarded, with the supporting documentation, through the school, to the School Curriculum and Standards Authority prior to enrolment. Copies of this form are available on the School Curriculum and Standards Authority website (www.scsa.wa.edu.au) on the EAL/D course page. Students who wish to enrol in EALD in Year 12 for the first time must also follow this process.
The EAL/D course will be available to a student in Year 12:
• whose first language is not English and who has not been a resident in Australia or another predominantly English speaking country for a total period of more than seven years immediately prior to 1 January of the year of enrolment into Year 12, AND for whom English has not been the main medium of communication and/or instruction for more than seven years immediately prior to 1 January of the year of enrolment into Year 12.
• who is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, or from Cocos Island or Christmas Island, for whom SAE has been the medium of instruction, but for whom SAE is an additional language/dialect, and whose exposure to SAE is primarily within the school context.
• who is deaf or hard-of-hearing and communicates using signing, such as Auslan, as their first language.
• whose first language is not English and who was born outside Australia and has had little or no formal education prior to arriving in Australia.
• whose first language is not English and who was born outside Australia or in a remote part of Australia and has had a disrupted formal education whose first language is not English and who has been a resident in Australia for more than seven years prior to 1 January of the year of enrolment into Year 12, but who has had little or disrupted formal education in SAE, resulting in significant disadvantage.
NOTE: If a student other than a Year 12 student applies to enrol to sit for the WACE examination, they must meet the eligibility requirements.
Further Study
Year 12 English as an additional Language ATAR (ATELD)