Dr Ann Kelly

Integration: One perspective and its applications and implications for adult language

literacy and numeracy practices

Integration of English language, literacy and numeracy

Focus of unit/lesson

Slightly more complex concept of integration

Learning

Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF)

Components of the ACSF

5 core skills

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5 levels of performance

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6 aspects of communication

5 Core Skills Levels

• Learning

• Reading

• Writing

• Oral

Communication

• Numeracy

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6 Aspects of Communication

• Personal

• Cooperative

• Procedural

• Technical

• Systems

• Public

Applications and Key features of the ACSF

http://www.deewr.gov.au/Skills/Programs/LitandNum/WorkplaceEnglishLanguageandLiteracy/Documents/AustralianCoreSkillsFramework.pdf

Retrieved 15 March 2011, pp. 3-5.

Implications of the ACSF

• Provides a useful framework for considering lln competency

• Is based on the importance of cognitive, socio-cultural, critical and affective theoretical positions

• Brings together different disciplinary histories and practices

• Impacts on the need for extensive knowledge and skills of lln by teachers

professional development needs

• Impacts on the need for extensive knowledge of different contexts by lln teachers and tutors