Ascentis Level 2 Functional Skills English

Qualification Overview

Functional Skills English qualifications at Level 2 should enable learners to:

• Listen, understand and make relevant contributions to discussions with others in a range of contexts
• Apply their understanding of language to adapt delivery and content to suit audience and purpose
• Read a range of different text types confidently and fluently, applying their knowledge and understanding of texts to their own writing
• Write texts of varying complexity, with accuracy, effectiveness, and correct spelling, punctuation and grammar
• Understand the situations when, and audiences for which, planning, drafting and using formal language are important, and when they are less important

Learners should be able to use these Functional Skills autonomously, applying them to a range of formal and informal contexts, in the workplace and in real life.

Aims

The aims of the qualifications are to:

• Promote the development of English skills to embed their importance as an evolving life skill
• Prepare learners to use English skills in a broad range of familiar and working contexts
• Reward achievement for the English skills learners have developed

Target Group

This qualification is aimed at a range of learners including young people aged 14–19 and adult learners wishing to develop and demonstrate their skills in English. The assessment tasks have been designed so that the contexts are applicable to both young people aged 14– 19 and adult learners.

Assessment Method

The Ascentis Functional Skills English qualifications at Level 1 and Level 2 are assessed through externally set assessments (Reading and Writing components are delivered online through the Surpass platform) and marked and verified by Ascentis.

At all levels of the Ascentis Functional Skills English qualifications, Speaking, Listening and Communicating (SLC) is set by Ascentis, assessed in centre, and assessment decisions are recorded using Ascentis-devised recording documents and video-recorded evidence (if available).