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Tip 7: Locating LLN in Training Package units of competency
or accredited course modules
LLN units are beginning to appear as electives in
Training Packages. When a need for LLN assistance
has been identified prior to enrolment these
electives provide another option to maximise learner
achievement.
There are number of key aspects to the integration of
‘real LLN’ into vocational training:
• understanding the relevant LLN for each
qualification or accredited course through detailed
analysis
• determining the levels of complexity for this LLN
• using the information about LLN content and
complexity to design training and assessment.
In order to be able to develop an effective training
plan and to assess LLN appropriately, you must
know exactly what LLN content you are assessing.
In stand-alone LLN accredited courses such as the
suite of Queensland Courses in Vocational Literacy
and Vocational Numeracy, LLN content is explicit
in the learning outcomes. Modules concentrate on
life skills, speaking, listening, strategies to improve
spelling, good sentence and paragraph writing, and
basic computer skills.
However, in Training Packages, the LLN content
is integrated into the vocational competencies.
Advice to Training Package developers about how to
integrate LLN into units suggests that these skills:
• should be placed in context
• should only include those skills actually required
for successful performance of work tasks
• could be included within elements, performance
criteria, or in the range statement or evidence
guide, depending on how the skills relate to
workplace tasks.
Consequently some unit titles clearly show that the
entire unit involves the practical use of LLN skills in
the workplace, such as in the TLI07 Transport and
Logistics Training Package units:
• TLIE507C: Carry out basic workplace calculations
• TLIE407C: Prepare workplace documents.
But in other units the LLN content appears in the
performance criteria and evidence guide, such as in
the WRF04 Floristry Training Package unit:
• WRFO306B: Apply product knowledge to meet
customer needs.
Often, successful performance of an industry
competency will depend on specific LLN skills.
The reading or writing or numeracy or speaking or
listening are ‘how’ people interact / learn / work
so the learner needs to be able to complete these
components as part of the task rather than as ‘addons’.
Where the LLN skills have been explicitly stated
in any unit or element of competence, there is an
expectation that these skills need to be developed
by the learner and assessed accordingly.
Issues of safety, compliance and licensing are
also significant reasons for requiring a level of
English language competence. For example, in the
PRM04 Asset Maintenance Training Package unit of
competency PRMPFES03C: Safely move materials
and loads in the workplace, LLN skills are required
to ‘understand and comply with work instructions’,
‘interpret safety signs’ and ‘read and comprehend
instructions.’
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