The English Language Learning (ELL) programmes address the specific language needs of ESOL students attending Aorere College. ELL courses are needs based and all students who have arrived in New Zealand in the last 5 years are assessed and placed in the most appropriate course for them.
Students with extremely minimal English attend Reception classes. This means that, rather than attending mainstream classes that might be too difficult, the students attend language classes where the focus is on building vocabulary, reading comprehension and basic writing skills. For new senior Reception students at this level, an intensive Senior ELL Foundation course is available with 2 option lines (1 line for literacy and another for numeracy) to help them meet the basic or foundation literacy and numeracy at Level 1 NCEA.
Junior students attend ELL as a quasi-option subject, which target students cannot simply give up unless ELLP benchmark scores are met and recommended by the department. These classes focus on cross-curricular topic studies aimed at supporting the students in their other subjects and developing their speaking, listening, reading comprehension and writing skills.
The English Language Learning senior classes are double options and offer NCEA credits. Students who take this subject are offered ELL Unit Standards between levels 1 and 3 and English Standards at Levels 1 and 2. Students have the opportunity to gain their University Entrance Literacy in Year 12 through a few mainstream Level 2 English Achievement Standards and Year 13 through the Level 4 Reading and Writing for English for Academic Purposes (EAP).
Students with extremely minimal English attend Reception classes. This means that, rather than attending mainstream classes that might be too difficult, the students attend language classes where the focus is on building vocabulary, reading comprehension and basic writing skills. For new senior Reception students at this level, an intensive Senior ELL Foundation course is available with 2 option lines (1 line for literacy and another for numeracy) to help them meet the basic or foundation literacy and numeracy at Level 1 NCEA.
Junior students attend ELL as a quasi-option subject, which target students cannot simply give up unless ELLP benchmark scores are met and recommended by the department. These classes focus on cross-curricular topic studies aimed at supporting the students in their other subjects and developing their speaking, listening, reading comprehension and writing skills.
The English Language Learning senior classes are double options and offer NCEA credits. Students who take this subject are offered ELL Unit Standards between levels 1 and 3 and English Standards at Levels 1 and 2. Students have the opportunity to gain their University Entrance Literacy in Year 12 through a few mainstream Level 2 English Achievement Standards and Year 13 through the Level 4 Reading and Writing for English for Academic Purposes (EAP).