New Zealand Certificate In English Language Academic Level 3

PROGRAMME INFORMATION Programme Aim This programme aims to empower Learners by providing understandings, knowledge and skills, to develop the English language skills to enable the student to participate and communicate with some independence and fluency in everyday academic English language contexts. Content Students will learn how to understand the main points and key supporting detail in extended oral interaction and factual information in familiar contexts. Students will learn to speak with some coherence, fluency and spontaneity to express personal ideas and sustain interaction in familiar contexts. Students will learn to read and understand a range of texts on familiar topics; scan, locate and gather information to fulfil a specific task. Students will learn to write comprehensible, connected texts on familiar topics with reasonable linguistic accuracy, using a range of text types. Graduate Profile and Programme Outcome Graduates of this qualification will have the English language skills to: - understand the main points and key supporting detail in extended oral interaction and factual information in familiar contexts - speak with some coherence, fluency and spontaneity to express personal ideas and sustain interaction in familiar contexts - read and understand a range of texts on familiar topics; scan, locate and gather information to fulfil a specific task - write comprehensible, connected texts on familiar topics with reasonable linguistic accuracy, using a range of text types. Graduates will be awarded the New Zealand Certificate in English Language (Level 3) [Ref: 1882].

1 Number Title Credits 28050 Understanding spoken information on familiar topics 5 28051 Understanding spoken interaction on familiar topics 5 28052 Understanding detailed spoken instructions 5 28062 Participating in a formal interview 5 28463 Participating in a spoken transaction 5 28464 Presenting information on a formal topic 5 28056 Being able to read texts of different genres 5 28057 Being able to read and understand texts for practical purposes 5 28058 Being able to read a bigger range of texts 5 28068 Write texts on familiar topics 5 28069 Write texts for practical purposes 5 28070 Write a text of a specific purpose. 5 Total Credits 60