VCE English as an Additional Language (EAL) (Year 12)

VCE English as an Additional Language (EAL) (Year 12) on VCE Vault: 10 lessons written for Year 12 (VCE, Victorian Certificate of Education), each with worked examples, practice questions and Aari, an AI tutor. The first 4 lessons are free; the whole subject is a one-off A$14.99.

VCE English as an Additional Language (EAL) past exams 2023–2025: 26 questions matched to these lessons.

VCE English as an Additional Language (EAL) (Year 12) study notes: 50 pages covering 10 topics (PDF, A$9.99).

Lessons

Exam Preparation

• VCE EAL Explained — Who It Is For, What Is Assessed and How to Succeed (free) — Understand who is eligible for EAL, how Units 3–4 are structured and assessed, and the habits that help EAL students succeed.
• EAL Exam Strategy — Timing, Planning and Proofreading — Plan your time across the exam, use reading time well, and apply a proofreading routine to reduce language errors.

Reading and Responding to Texts

• Reading and Responding — Understanding Your Text’s Ideas, Characters and Values (free) — Read a set text closely to understand its ideas, characters, structure and values, and collect evidence ready for analytical writing.
• Writing an Analytical Text Response — Contention, TEEL Paragraphs and Evidence (free) — Plan and write an analytical text response with a clear contention, well-structured body paragraphs and integrated evidence.

Language and Listening Skills

• Language Control — Academic Vocabulary, Grammar and Sentence Variety (free) — Improve accuracy and clarity in analytical writing by fixing common grammar errors, using academic vocabulary and varying sentence structures.
• Listening Skills — Note-Taking and Responding to Spoken Texts — Listen to spoken texts (interviews, podcasts, speeches) to identify main ideas, speakers’ points of view and persuasive language, using efficient note-taking.

Creating Texts

• Creating Texts — Mentor Texts and Your Framework of Ideas — Use mentor texts and a framework of ideas to generate ideas and borrow techniques for your own writing.
• Creating Texts — Writing for Purpose, Audience and Context, and Explaining Your Choices — Write texts that suit their purpose, audience and context, and explain your writing decisions in a written explanation.

Analysing Argument

• Analysing Argument — Contention, Arguments, Tone and Persuasive Techniques — Identify the contention, arguments, tone and intended audience of persuasive texts, and explain how language and visuals are used to persuade.
• Writing the Argument Analysis — Structure, Flow and Analysing Visuals — Write a structured argument analysis that follows the writer’s argument, analyses language and visuals, and tracks changes in tone.