National 2 ESOL

Support materials

ESOL Literacies National 2 Learning Support Material

National 2 Learning Support Material

Online resources - practice assessments

These materials are intended to support ESOL candidates in improving their skills in reading, listening, speaking and writing. (You are required to have Flash version 12 or above installed to run these assessments).

SQA Academy resources 

Learning support materials and online learning resources

Past Papers and Marking Instructions

Unit Assessment Support

These documents contain details of Unit assessment task(s), show approaches to gathering evidence and how the evidence can be judged against the Outcomes and Assessment Standards. Teachers/lecturers can arrange access to these confidential documents through their SQA Co-ordinator.

Verification and Course reports

Qualification Verification Summary Reports distil messages from verification activity from a given session. 

Understanding Standards

Examples of candidate evidence with commentaries

Examples of candidate evidence and commentaries for unit assessment can be found on the SQA Secure Site. You can access these through your SQA Coordinator.

Webinar (recording)

National 2 Beginners Literacies Webinar (recording 14 november 2024) has been published on the SQA Secure site (login required access via your SQA coordinator) 

Assessing ESOL Units online

Video overview of unit assessment from session 2019-20

Video overview progression through Units levels National 2 - National 4

Changes to Understanding Standards materials

Please note: Understanding Standards materials are regularly reviewed to ensure they remain up to date.