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
