Stage 5 School Certificate English Syllabus

5 Objectives

Skills, knowledge and understanding
Through responding to and composing a wide range of texts in context and through close
study of texts, students will develop skills, knowledge and understanding in order to:
• speak, listen, read, write, view and represent *
• use language and communicate appropriately and effectively
• think in ways that are imaginative, interpretive and critical
• express themselves and their relationships with others and the world
• learn and reflect on their learning through their study of English.

Values and attitudes
Students will value and appreciate:
• the importance of the English language as a key to learning
• the power of language to explore and express views of themselves, others and the world
• the power of effective communication using the language modes of speaking, listening,
reading, writing, viewing and representing
• the role of language in developing positive interaction and cooperation with others
• the diversity and aesthetics of language through literary and other texts
• the independence gained from thinking imaginatively, interpretively and critically
• the power of language to express the personal, social, cultural, ethical, moral, spiritual
and aesthetic dimensions of human experiences.

6 Outcomes

(in relation to objectives)

Through responding to and composing a wide range of texts in context and through close study of texts, students will develop skills, knowledge and understanding in order to:

• speak, listen, read, write, view and represent

1 responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure

2 uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing

3 selects, uses, describes and explains how different technologies affect and shape meaning

• use language and communicate appropriately and effectively

4 selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning

5 transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts

• think in ways that are imaginative, interpretive and critical

6 experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts

7 thinks critically and interpretively using information, ideas and increasingly complex arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of contexts

8 investigates the relationships between and among texts

• express themselves and their relationships with others and the world

9 demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds

10 questions, challenges and evaluates cultural assumptions in texts and their effects on meaning

• learn and reflect on their learning through their study of English.

11 uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness.