119640 Read/View and Respond to a Range of Text Types

Aim/Intro

This unit standard will enable learners to read or view a number of different kinds of texts developed for different purposes, audiences and contexts. Learners will understand how language is used to convey meaning, and to shape people`s views and relationships. Learners will be able to find, sort and use information through reading/viewing.

Aim/Intro

NQF Level 1 - 6 Credits

This unit standard replaces:
12469 Read and respond to a range of text types NQF Level 01 - 6 credits

Learning assumed to be in place and recognition of prior learning
Listening, Speaking/Signing, Reading/Viewing and Writing skills at ABET 3 or equivalent.

Unit standard range
This standard covers written/signed and visual texts appropriate to the needs and interests of learners, including narrative, persuasive, factual, everyday information, practical and visual texts as well as multimedia.

Specific range statements are provided in the body of the unit standards where they apply to particular specific outcomes or assessment criteria.

Notes on range:

Contexts include:
- Civil society
- Literary contexts
- Media contexts
- Gender and race contexts
- Historical, social and political contexts
- Institutional contexts
- Workplace/industry contexts
- Personal relations and interpersonal relations.

Content includes:
- Knowledge (eg related to social conditions, human experiences, human rights, workplace issues, learning experiences)
- Aesthetics (eg appreciation of the artistic elements, innovative use of language in consumer society (eg slogans, logos, marketing techniques)
- Relationships (eg workplace interactions, group interactions, personal interactions, social sensibility, power relations) > Emotions (eg sympathy, empathy, identification, rejection) Text types include: Written/signed and visual texts at this level include narrative, persuasive, factual and everyday/information texts; texts may be of mixed types.

Text types include:
Written/signed and visual texts at this level include narrative, persuasive, factual and everyday/information texts; texts may be of mixed types.

Specific Outcomes and Assessment Criteria:

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Aim/Intro

Please note that this is a fundamental unit standard, and in accordance with Services SETA can therefore only be accredited if completed with an additional core or elective. Please contact us should you have any questions.


US ID NQF Level Credits Description
1194562 5 Write/present for a defined context
1194573 5 Interpret and use information from texts
1194594 5 Write/present/sign for a wide range of contexts
1194632 5 Access and use information from texts
1194653 5 Write/present/sign texts for a range of communicative contexts
1194694 5 Read/view, analyse and respond to a variety of texts
1196361 6 Write/Sign for a variety of different purposes (Historical)
121534 5 Use the writing process to compose texts required in the business environment.
1194562 5 Write/present for a defined context
1194573 5 Interpret and use information from texts
1194594 5 Write/present/sign for a wide range of contexts
1194632 5 Access and use information from texts
1194653 5 Write/present/sign texts for a range of communicative contexts
1194694 5 Read/view, analyse and respond to a variety of texts
1196361 6 Write/Sign for a variety of different purposes (Historical)
121534 5 Use the writing process to compose texts required in the business environment

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