This document discusses addressing adult language, literacy, and numeracy (LLN) skills, which is a core unit in the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. It notes that according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, around half of Australian adults lack the minimum required prose writing, document literacy, and numeracy skills to fully participate in the labor market, education, and social and civic life. The government has set a target for 75% of Australian workers to have LLN skills of level 3 or higher by 2022. It defines LLN as language, literacy, and numeracy and provides descriptions of each. Finally, it lists next steps for determining LLN requirements, skills, developing strategies and resources, and evaluating assistance.
2. It is a core unit
in TAE40116
Certificate IV in
Training and
Assessment
But …
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3. Australian Bureau of Statistics
Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, Australia, 2011-12
Skill levels in literacy and numeracy
• Proportion at each literacy
level – 2011 – 12
46%of adults lack the minimum
prose writing skills
47% of adults lack minimum
document literacy skills
4. 53% of adults lacked
required numeracy skills
“Individuals with poorer skills
are at risk of not being able to
participate fully in the labour
market, education and training
and social and civic life.”
www.abs.gov.au (2013)
The government has therefore
set a target for 75% of Australian
workers to possess required LLN
skills of 3+ by 2022
6. Language
• Refers to communication
between people,
understanding others and
being able to make
yourself understood.
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8. Numeracy
Comparable with what we think of
as maths, but can be broader than
that.
• Involves understanding or being
able to extract the numeracy in a
situation.
• Carrying out a mathematical
process.
• Being able to communicate the
numeracy eg. the problem solving
process or the outcome.
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9. What’s next?
• Determining the LLN requirement of a unit
of competency
• Determining the LLN requirements of work
• Determining the LLN skills of a
learner/group by developing/adapting an
LLN assessment task
• Developing and trialling some strategies and
resources
• Finding out how to access and use specialist
help
• Evaluating the effectiveness of any
assistance utilised
Editor's Notes
It includes speaking, listening, reading and writing, but also visual forms of communication eg. visual images, Auslan.
For example understanding and interpreting graphs; being able to construct graphs given the data; drawing a conclusion or implication from the graph and being able to communicate that.
