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NZCEL Level 4
(Academic)
New Zealand Certificate in English Language (NZCEL), will teach you the skills required to communicate effectively with fluency and flexibility in social, community, workplace, and academic contexts.
NZCEL Level 4 (Academic) Programme fulfills the need for enhancing your English language skills and can offer a pathway to prepare you for your further studies in New Zealand. If interested in pursuing a level 6 or 7 that needs Academic English skills, then NZCEL level 4 devices the pathway to attain it easily with confidence!
Programme Structure
NZCEL Level 4 (Academic) will teach you the skills to plan and conduct the listening and reading IELTS tests. The speaking topics involve practicing strategies on how to improve delivery of presentations, build confidence, and deliver your speeches to your audience in a complacent way. Listening skills are developed in a more comprehensive setting to be able to comprehend English speakers in both formal and less formal context.
Writing and Reading
After the completion of the NZCEL Level 4 (Academic) programme, you will be able to understand complex ideas in spoken texts or spoken interactions. You will be able to read and process complex transactional written texts for English Language purposes. You’ll also be able to develop inference skills in reading and writing assessments required to achive an academic score in IELTS exam. The writing modules will teach you how to process research information, and to write crafted texts. This will also redevelop skills on how to identify valid and authentic resources, plan, brainstorm and produce structured writing for specific purpose. These writing tasks in the NZCEL programme will mainly focus on writing research essays and academic reports for specific audience.
Skills Covered
Plan & conduct a Discussion in formal situation (Speaking).
Plan & deliver in a formal presentation (Speaking).
Demonstrate understanding of complex ideas in spoken texts (Listening).
Demonstrate understanding of Academic spoken Texts (Listening).
Participate in sustained discussions in Academic context (Speaking).
Evidence of understanding of complex spoken interactions (Listening).
Deliver an oral presentation for an academic purpose (Speaking).
Demonstrate understanding of formal spoken texts & Process information for academic purpose (Listening).
Read complex texts for practical purposes (Reading)
Read and Understand moderately complex texts (Reading).
Read & process information for academic purposes (Reading)
Write an evaluation for a specific Purpose(Writing)
Write reports for specified tasks.(Writing)
Create texts under test conditions in English for academic purpose (Writing).
Write a crafted text using researched materials in English for academic purpose(Writing)
NZCEL Level 4 (Academic) course will give you the opportunity to not only improve your four basic
skills, but it will allow you to polish your skills through applying them.
Dene Collison, Director Quality & Operations
Entry Requirements
You should be at least 16 years of age on entry and have completed the high school or completed NZCEL (Level 3) or NZQA equivalent, if you are an International student.
Valid visa: Working holiday visa, tourist visa, student visa or resident visa are valid visas.
International students for whom English is not their first language must have a minimum IELTS (General or Academic) score of 5.5 with no band score lower than 5.0 or NZQA approved equivalent or have passed NZCEL placement test at Tasman to secure a seat in our English Programmes.
FAQs
Firstly, if students haven’t done the IELTS tests before or haven’t got a score of 5.5, with no band score lower than 5.0, they can book a test at TIA, and do an in-house entry test up to three times for free.
Secondly, students will study NZCEL (Level 4) for 18 weeks along with some of our qualified and experienced English professional teachers, who will teach them the skills required to achieve the NZCEL certification.
Finally, graduated students will receive a NZCEL National Certificate issued by NZQA that equals to a 6.0 Academic IELTS score, which paves the way for further studies across New Zealand.