Years 11 and 12 | English as an Additional Language or Dialect

English as an Additional Language or Dialect

English as an Additional Language or Dialect learning area contacts:

For all English as an Additional Language or Dialect course enquiries please contact:
Louise Dodman : +61 8 9273 6785 | Louise.Dodman@scsa.wa.edu.au
For English as an Additional Language or Dialect COAT enquiries please contact:
Paul Cranley : +61 8 9273 6795 | Paul.Cranley@scsa.wa.edu.au

Eligibility approval is required for enrolment in Year 12 English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) courses and to receive an extra 10 minutes for the OLNA.

There are two processes for eligibility approval: one for enrolment in ATAR EAL/D, and another for enrolment in General and Foundation EAL/D and to receive extra time for the OLNA.

ATAR

Please note that there is a new eligibility policy for enrolment in Year 12 ATAR EAL/D from 2023.

Students who have previously been found eligible for enrolment in EAL/D ATAR Year 12 under the current policy remain eligible under the new policy.

Students who have previously been found ineligible for enrolment in EAL/D ATAR Year 12 under the current policy should email eald@scsa.wa.edu.au for information on how the policy change will impact their eligibility status.

Eligibility to enrol in the Year 12 ATAR EAL/D course from 2023

The School Curriculum and Standards Authority (the Authority) requires all schools to determine the eligibility of a student for enrolment in the Year 12 ATAR EAL/D course. A Year 12 student can only enrol in the ATAR EAL/D course if they have their eligibility declaration approved by their school principal. For a student to gain approval to enrol, they must complete an online eligibility declaration with supporting information and evidence by the deadline published in the Activities Schedule. Principal approval must be finalised by the Year 12 enrolment deadline. Students who do not receive principal approval may request a review by the Authority by the deadline published in the Activities Schedule.

While approval for EAL/D eligibility is only required for students enrolling in the Year 12 ATAR EAL/D course, schools are advised to collect documentation supporting EAL/D eligibility declarations at the time of initial student enrolment in the school. Students may submit their EAL/D eligibility declarations from Year 10.

Any student who has not had their EAL/D eligibility approved by the Year 12 enrolment deadline, as published in the Activities Schedule for that year, will not be able to enrol in the Year 12 ATAR EAL/D course for that year.

EAL/D eligibility process for Year 12 ATAR enrolment

The deadline for Year 12s in 2025 to submit an EAL/D declaration is listed in the table below. For further information please email eald@scsa.wa.edu.au

For queries related to the use of the SRMS, please contact srms@scsa.wa.edu.au.

Key dates in the eligibility process for enrolment in Year 12 ATAR EAL/D

Date	Eligibility process deadline
14 March 2025	Last date for student submission of online declarations to apply for eligibility to enrol in the Year 12 ATAR EAL/D course in 2025
21 March 2025	Last date for principal endorsement of Year 12 ATAR EAL/D declarations submitted prior to and including 14 March 2025
28 March 2025	Last date for receipt by the Authority of online review requests from students not endorsed by their principal for eligibility approval to enrol in the Year 12 ATAR EAL/D course in 2025

Extra time for the Online Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (OLNA) for ATAR EAL/D students

Students who are registered as eligible to be enrolled in the Year 12 ATAR EAL/D course will automatically be granted an extra 10 minutes to complete the reading, writing and numeracy components of the OLNA. Students may apply for eligibility from when they are in Year 9 in order to be granted the extra time for sitting the OLNA from the first round in Year 10. They will receive the extra time for every round of the OLNA they are required to sit until the year that their eligibility expires.

ATAR EAL/D

ATAR EAL/D translated

Information for students, schools and parents will be updated here.

General and Foundation

Enrolling in the Year 12 General and Foundation EAL/D courses

A Year 12 student can enrol in the General and Foundation EAL/D courses if they have eligibility approval from the teacher and school principal. For a student to be approved, the school must complete and retain the required documentation (Form for eligibility for enrolment in Year 12 General and Foundation English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) and for extra time to complete the OLNA) and supporting evidence. Schools must be prepared to submit this documentation and evidence when required by the Authority.

Extra time to complete the OLNA for General and Foundation EAL/D students

Where a General or Foundation student has EAL/D eligibility approval from the teacher and school principal, notification to the Authority for the allocation of an extra 10 minutes to complete each component of the OLNA needs to be entered by the principal (or their representative) through the OLNA dashboard. Schools must advise the Authority of any student needing the time adjustment by the deadline published in the Activities Schedule. The time adjustment will be applied to all OLNA tests completed by the student in that calendar year, therefore, this process needs to be repeated every calendar year that the student is sitting the OLNA.

Students may complete an eligibility form from when they are in Year 9 in order to be granted the extra time for sitting the first round of the OLNA.

Due date for allocation of extra time to complete the OLNA for General and Foundation EAL/D students

Please refer to the Activities Schedule for the due dates for eligibility entry in the OLNA dashboard.

OLNA and EAL/D students

The EAL/D OLNA adjustment of 10 minutes extra working time is also available to students who are not enrolled in an EAL/D course if they meet the eligibility criteria for enrolment in an EAL/D course.

For a student to be granted eligibility approval, the school must complete and retain the required documentation (Form for eligibility for enrolment in Year 12 General and Foundation English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) and for extra time to complete the OLNA) and include supporting evidence.

Once the required documentation is completed, the principal (or their representative) needs to notify the Authority, through the OLNA Dashboard, requesting an extra 10 minutes to complete each component of the OLNA.

The time adjustment will be applied to all OLNA tests completed by the student in that calendar year. Therefore, this process needs to be repeated every calendar year that the student is sitting the OLNA. Schools must advise the Authority of any student needing time adjustments by the deadline published in the Activities Schedule.

Due date for allocation of extra time to complete the OLNA for EAL/D students

Please refer to the Activities Schedule for the due dates for eligibility entry in the OLNA dashboard.

For more information about EAL/D and OLNA, please refer to the OLNA website

Form for General and Foundation EAL/D and for extra time to complete the OLNA

Form for eligibility for enrolment in Year 12 General and Foundation EAL/D and for extra time to complete the OLNA (489.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:11pm
Form for eligibility for enrolment in Year 12 General and Foundation EAL/D and for extra time to complete the OLNA (311.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:11pm

ATAR
The EAL/D courses are designed for students who speak another language or dialect as their first or ‘home’ language. EAL/D focuses on development of the competent use of Standard Australian English (SAE) in a range of contexts. The EAL/D ATAR course develops academic English skills to prepare students for tertiary study.
Syllabus
- ATAR Syllabus Year 11 - For teaching from 2024 (536.2 KB) Last updated: 16 Feb 2024 10:26am
- ATAR Syllabus Year 11 - For teaching from 2024 (377.4 KB) Last updated: 16 Feb 2024 10:26am
- ATAR Syllabus Year 12 - For teaching from 2024 (557.7 KB) Last updated: 16 Feb 2024 10:30am
- ATAR Syllabus Year 12 - For teaching from 2024 (381.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Feb 2024 10:31am
Grading
- Grade descriptions in Year 11 syllabus
- Grade descriptions in Year 12 syllabus
Support Materials
- Glossary of key words used in the formulation of questions (328.7 KB) Last updated: 12 May 2025 4:11pm
- Glossary of key words used in the formulation of questions (211.7 KB) Last updated: 28 Jan 2025 7:24am
- ATAR Suggested Language Teaching Resources EAL/D Year 11 and 12 (222.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:43pm
- ATAR Suggested Language Teaching Resources EAL/D Year 11 and 12 (384.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:43pm
- ATAR Suggested Resources EAL/D Year 11 (392.0 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:43pm
- ATAR Suggested Resources EAL/D Year 11 (267.6 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:43pm
- ATAR Year 11 sample course outline (513.8 KB) Last updated: 28 Nov 2024 8:13am
- ATAR Year 11 sample course outline (372.9 KB) Last updated: 28 Nov 2024 8:14am
- ATAR Year 11 sample assessment outline (400.6 KB) Last updated: 28 Nov 2024 8:14am
- ATAR Year 11 sample assessment outline (353.0 KB) Last updated: 28 Nov 2024 8:15am
- ATAR Year 11 sample assessment tasks (719.6 KB) Last updated: 28 Nov 2024 8:15am
- ATAR Year 11 sample assessment tasks (423.6 KB) Last updated: 28 Nov 2024 8:15am
- ATAR Suggested Resources EAL/D Year 12 (747.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:43pm
- ATAR Suggested Resources EAL/D Year 12 (274.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:43pm
- ATAR Year 12 sample course outline (533.8 KB) Last updated: 02 Aug 2024 10:04am
- ATAR Year 12 sample course outline (381.6 KB) Last updated: 02 Aug 2024 10:05am
- ATAR Year 12 sample assessment outline (434.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:54pm
- ATAR Year 12 sample assessment outline (354.0 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:54pm
- ATAR Year 12 sample assessment tasks (700.0 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:54pm
- ATAR Year 12 sample assessment tasks (433.1 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:54pm
Examination Materials
- 2024 Summary examination report for candidates (123.2 KB) Last updated: 11 Apr 2025 12:42pm
- 2024 Examination (366.8 KB) Last updated: 11 Mar 2025 3:06pm
- 2024 Marking Key (720.5 KB) Last updated: 11 Mar 2025 3:06pm
- 2024 Recording Transcript (571.7 KB) Last updated: 11 Mar 2025 3:06pm
- 2024 Track 1 (1.0 MB) Last updated: 12 Feb 2025 3:01pm
- 2024 Track 2 - Text 1 (23.7 MB) Last updated: 12 Feb 2025 3:01pm
- 2024 Track 3 - Text 2 (19.2 MB) Last updated: 12 Feb 2025 3:01pm
- Additional Past ATAR Course Examinations
Common Oral Assessment Task (COAT) Materials
- COAT Handbook (624.4 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:53am
- COAT Handbook (624.6 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:54am
- COAT Technical Guide (675.3 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:54am
- COAT Technical Guide (1.8 MB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:54am
- COAT Marking Key (611.8 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:55am
- COAT Preparation Booklet (331.9 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:55am
- COAT Advice for Teachers (299.9 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:55am
- COAT Presentation (16.8 MB)
- Sample COAT (238.0 MB)
  Last updated: 18 Dec 2024 4:08 pm
- Transcript for Sample COAT (195.0 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:56am
- COAT Sample Stimulus Material (364.2 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:57am
- 2025 COAT Timeline (161.5 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:58am
- 2025 COAT Timeline (209.8 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:58am
- 2025 COAT Unit 3 Contexts (169.1 KB) Last updated: 19 Sep 2024 10:48am
- 2025 COAT Total Marks (75.9 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:58am
General
The Authority is reviewing the ATAR syllabuses. For more information see the Syllabus Review section below.
The EAL/D courses are designed for students who speak another language or dialect as their first or ‘home’ language. EAL/D focuses on development of the competent use of Standard Australian English (SAE) in a range of contexts. The EAL/D General course prepares students for a range of post-secondary destinations in further education, training and the workplace.
Syllabus
- General Syllabus Year 11 - For teaching from 2024 (466.3 KB) Last updated: 30 Jan 2024 9:28am
- General Syllabus Year 11 - For teaching from 2024 (317.9 KB) Last updated: 30 Jan 2024 9:28am
- General Syllabus Year 12 - For teaching from 2024 (474.8 KB) Last updated: 30 Jan 2024 9:28am
- General Syllabus Year 12 - For teaching from 2024 (317.7 KB) Last updated: 30 Jan 2024 9:28am
Grading
- Grade descriptions in Year 11 syllabus
- Grade descriptions in Year 12 syllabus
Support Materials
- Glossary of key words used in the formulation of questions (328.7 KB) Last updated: 12 May 2025 4:11pm
- Glossary of key words used in the formulation of questions (211.7 KB) Last updated: 28 Jan 2025 7:24am
- General Year 11 sample course outline (354.3 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:09am
- General Year 11 sample course outline (362.6 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:09am
- General Year 11 sample assessment outline (292.9 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:10am
- General Year 11 sample assessment outline (351.5 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:10am
- General Year 11 sample assessment tasks (523.1 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:10am
- General Year 11 sample assessment tasks (439.6 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:10am
- General Year 12 sample course outline (356.5 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:16am
- General Year 12 sample course outline (366.6 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:16am
- General Year 12 sample assessment outline (293.8 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:16am
- General Year 12 sample assessment outline (352.5 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:16am
- General Year 12 sample assessment tasks (524.9 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:17am
- General Year 12 sample assessment tasks (411.2 KB) Last updated: 05 Mar 2025 11:16am
Externally Set Task Materials 2025
- 2025 General EST Unit 3 content (167.3 KB) Last updated: 18 Sep 2024 9:58am
Externally Set Task Materials 2024
- 2024 General EST Unit 3 content (283.0 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:36pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2023
- 2023 General EST Unit 3 Content (185.9 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:10pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2022
- 2022 General EST Unit 3 Content (280.9 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:33pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2021
- 2021 ELD General EST Unit 3 Content (282.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:22pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2020
- 2020 General EST Unit 3 Content (282.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:10pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2019
- 2019 General EST Unit 3 content (152.6 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:50pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2018
- 2018 General EST Unit 3 content (147.4 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:33pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2017
- 2017 General EST Unit 3 content (166.9 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:23pm
- 2017 General EST Unit 3 content (153.1 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:23pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2016
- General sample EST (413.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:40pm
- General sample EST (309.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:40pm
- General sample EST marking key (319.4 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:40pm
- General sample EST marking key (187.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:40pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Foundation
The Authority is reviewing the ATAR syllabuses. For more information see the Syllabus Review section below.
The EAL/D Foundation course is designed for students who speak another language or dialect as their first or ‘home’ language and who have not demonstrated the literacy standard in the OLNA. EAL/D focuses on the mechanics of Standard Australian English (SAE) and its use in the community, the workplace or in further education or training. Practical, relevant tasks delivered through a range of engaging contexts teach students to become effective communicators, code switching between languages or dialects successfully.
Syllabus
- Foundation Syllabus Year 11 - For teaching from 2024 (515.0 KB) Last updated: 30 Jan 2024 9:45am
- Foundation Syllabus Year 11 - For teaching from 2024 (326.4 KB) Last updated: 30 Jan 2024 9:45am
- Foundation Syllabus Year 12 - For teaching from 2024 (533.8 KB) Last updated: 30 Jan 2024 9:45am
- Foundation Syllabus Year 12 - For teaching from 2024 (329.0 KB) Last updated: 30 Jan 2024 9:45am
Grading
- Grade descriptions in Year 11 syllabus
- Grade descriptions in Year 12 syllabus
Support Materials
- Glossary of key words used in the formulation of questions (328.7 KB) Last updated: 12 May 2025 4:11pm
- Glossary of key words used in the formulation of questions (211.7 KB) Last updated: 28 Jan 2025 7:24am
- Foundation Year 11 sample course outline (311.8 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:43pm
- Foundation Year 11 sample course outline (381.8 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:43pm
- Foundation Year 11 sample course outline 2 (317.7 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:35pm
- Foundation Year 11 sample course outline 2 (371.8 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:35pm
- Foundation Year 11 sample assessment outline (243.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:43pm
- Foundation Year 11 sample assessment outline (352.6 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:43pm
- Foundation Year 11 sample assessment outline 2 (247.7 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:35pm
- Foundation Year 11 sample assessment outline 2 (352.4 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:35pm
- Foundation Year 11 sample assessment tasks (304.4 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:43pm
- Foundation Year 11 sample assessment tasks (374.9 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:43pm
- Foundation Year 11 sample assessment tasks 2 (302.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:35pm
- Foundation Year 11 sample assessment tasks 2 (365.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:35pm
- Foundation Year 12 sample course outline (377.7 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:52pm
- Foundation Year 12 sample course outline (394.9 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:52pm
- Foundation Year 12 sample assessment outline (253.0 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:52pm
- Foundation Year 12 sample assessment outline (359.5 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:52pm
- Foundation Year 12 sample assessment tasks (299.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:52pm
- Foundation Year 12 sample assessment tasks (375.9 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:52pm
Externally Set Task Materials 2025
- 2025 Foundation EST Unit 3 content (166.6 KB) Last updated: 18 Sep 2024 9:58am
Externally Set Task Materials 2024
- 2024 Foundation EST Unit 3 content (282.2 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:36pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2023
- 2023 Foundation EST Unit 3 Content (187.0 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 1:10pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2022
- 2022 Foundation EST Unit 3 Content (280.2 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:33pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2021
- 2021 ELD Foundation EST Unit 3 Content (280.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:22pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2020
- 2020 Foundation EST Unit 3 Content (281.4 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 3:10pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2019
- 2019 Foundation EST Unit 3 content (152.3 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:50pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2018
- 2018 Foundation EST Unit 3 content (145.4 KB) Last updated: 16 Dec 2023 2:33pm
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.
Externally Set Task Materials 2017
- Externally set tasks with their associated marking key and work samples are teacher resources and are housed within the Teacher Support Material Extranet. Teachers can login or register for an account at https://www.scsa.wa.edu.au/extranet/login.