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How do ESOL/D assessments impact Indigenous learners in VET?

ESOL/D indigenous students in VET. How do ESOL/D assessments impact Indigenous learners in VET?. Catherine Ralston Kimberley TAFE, WA ACAL. ESOL/D indigenous students in VET. I believe that: Poor educational outcomes for indigenous students have a linguistic cause. Poor Educational Outcomes.

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How do ESOL/D assessments impact Indigenous learners in VET?

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  1. ESOL/D indigenous students in VET How do ESOL/D assessments impact Indigenous learners in VET? Catherine Ralston Kimberley TAFE, WA ACAL

  2. ESOL/D indigenous students in VET I believe that:Poor educational outcomes for indigenous students have a linguistic cause

  3. Poor Educational Outcomes

  4. Poor Educational Outcomes The blue arrow indicates the GAP that needs closing

  5. Iceberg - Culture and Language Language Semantics Pragmatics Values Beliefs Attitudes

  6. Similarities belie differences WORDS SAE AE Anglo-european Aboriginal

  7. Language and dialect in the Kimberley Standard Australian English Aboriginal English Kriol Traditional language of region

  8. AQF - Australian Qualifications Framework “Flexibility” and “Fairness” are both our strengths and our weaknesses. We enable students to demonstrate competence in low level qualifications without building the literacy and numeracy skills required for success in higher level qualifications. There are significant number of students who can not succeed at Cert III and above because of LLN difficulty.

  9. VET - Vocational Education and Training • Competency and outcomes based • Underpinning skills and knowledge • Focus on employment outcomes • Assessment must be ‘flexible’ and ‘fair’ -> catch 22

  10. Strategies • Acknowledge dialect as different not deficient • Provide two-way learning environment • Provide specialised linguistic support • Provide contextualised literacy development through low level certificates to enable pathway progression

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