ESL Companion to the English CSF
The ESL Companion to the English CSF, published in 2000, provides teachers with a more detailed description of the ESL pathway and is closely aligned with the ESL standards. The stages are the same for both documents. The ESL Companion to the English CSF provides additional information, detailing learning outcomes and examples, and a curriculum focus, in a range of substrands for the CSF strands of Speaking and listening, Reading and Writing.
Substrands
Communication: sets the context, and describes the kinds of texts students are able to deal with.
Aspects of language:
- Contextual understanding: students’ ability to use English appropriately in a variety of situational and sociocultural contexts
- Linguistic structures and features: students’ ability to use the grammar and vocabulary of English, pronunciation and text structure
- Strategies: the strategies students employ as they learn English and use it to communicate
Because of the insight the substrands provide into ESL development, elements of them are retained in these ESL standards. The ESL Companion to the English CSF can be used by teachers requiring further information about the ESL learning pathway.
The ESL Companion to the English CSF has been archived and is available from the National Library of Australia website.
