Ideal if you have achieved your level 3 or level 4 in BSL, depending on your BSL skills, and are ready to progress to Level 6. This course is suitable for you if you want to continue to develop your skills up to the appropriate standard at level 6 in BSL. This course will enable you to understand and use complex BSL in a range of work and social situations. By the end of the course you will need to achieve all 6 assessments to...
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Start Date:13 Jan 2027
End Date:16 Jun 2027
Wed (Daytime):10:00 - 17:00
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Location: Keeley Street
Duration: 20 sessions (over 23 weeks)
Course Code: QV042
Full fee£1,899.00Senior fee£1,899.00Concession£1,899.00
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By taking the Level 6 Certificate in British Sign Language, you’ll develop your existing language skills from Level 3 or 4 to Level 6 of the National Occupational Standards for Languages. After successful completion of this qualification, you’ll be able to use and understand complex BSL in all types of social and professional situations.
What will we cover?
You will learn productive, receptive and conversational skills at advanced level in a wide range of topics including Sign Linguistics knowledge: • Medicine • Education • Employment and Business • Finance • Politics and Law • Society • Media • Science and Technology.
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
- Use receptive and productive skills to engage in all types of complex social interaction - Use and understand complex language, and maintain fluency, grammatical accuracy and coherence in sustained contributions containing complex language - Understand sustained signed discourse containing complex language - Use reference sources to confirm or clarify the meaning of signs
To achieve the full level 6 certificate in BSL you will need to pass all six unit assessments.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
You must be able to demonstrate competence in BSL at level 4, or equivalent.
You can use this qualification as evidence of your full professional proficiency in BSL. It’s relevant if you work, or aim to work, professionally with Deaf people - for example as a teacher, social worker or volunteer with deaf people, or as a deaf organisation’s employee. Level 6 can also be used as evidence of proficiency in BSL for sign language interpreters and sign language translators.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
• Classroom based teaching • Individual or group tutorials • Feedback or observed practice • Assessments • Demonstration • Presentation • Debate • Group discussion • Watching video clips for receptive skills
Utilising our resources and materials uploaded onto Google Classroom - accessed through your student account.
You will have access to Google Drive for your e-portfolio.
A considerable amount of additional home study will be required.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
Examination fees are included in the course fees.
You will need a smartphone or laptop for filming, research and access to Google Classroom.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
On completion of this qualification, the candidate may wish to progress to the following qualifications:
• Signature Level 6 NVQ Diploma in Sign Language Interpreting. • Signature Level 6 Diploma in Sign Language Translation.
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It’s relevant if you work, or aim to work, professionally with Deaf people - for example as a teacher, social worker or volunteer with deaf people, or as a deaf organisation’s employee. 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