WACE Breadth & Depth Requirement:

List A

Prerequisite

60% in English Standard and prequalification of Literacy standard (Band 8 or higher in Literacy standard NAPLAN).

The English ATAR course focuses on developing students’ analytical, creative, and critical thinking and communication skills in all language modes, encouraging students to critically engage with texts from their contemporary world, the past, and from Australian and other cultures.Through close study and wide reading, viewing and listening, students develop the ability to analyse and evaluate the purpose, stylistic qualities and conventions of texts and to enjoy creating imaginative, interpretive, persuasive and analytical responses in a range of written, oral, multimodal and digital forms.

Unit 1
Students explore how meaning is communicated through the relationships between language, text, purpose, context and audience. This includes how language and texts are shaped by their purpose, the audiences for whom they are intended, and the contexts in which they are created and received. Through responding to and creating texts, students consider how language, structure and conventions operate in a variety of imaginative, interpretive and persuasive texts.

Study in this unit focuses on the similarities and differences between texts and how visual elements combine with spoken and written elements to create meaning. Students develop an understanding of stylistic features and apply skills of analysis and creativity. They are able to respond to texts in a variety of ways, creating their own texts, and reflecting on their own learning.

Unit 2
Students analyse the representation of ideas, attitudes and voices in texts to consider how texts represent the world and human experience. Analysis of how language and structural choices shape perspectives in and for a range of contexts is central to this unit.

By responding to and creating texts in different modes and media, students consider the interplay of imaginative, interpretive, persuasive and analytical elements in a range of texts and present their own analyses. Students critically examine the effect of stylistic choices and the ways in which these choices position audiences for particular purposes, revealing and/ or shaping attitudes, values and perspectives.

Through the creation of their own texts, students are encouraged to reflect on their language choices and consider why they have represented ideas in particular ways.

WACE Breadth & Depth Requirement:

List A

Prerequisite

Completion of Year 10 English course.

The English General course focuses on consolidating and refining the skills and knowledge needed by students to become competent, confident and engaged users of English in everyday, community, social, further education, training and workplace contexts. The course is designed to provide students with the skills to succeed in a wide range of post-secondary pathways by developing their language, literacy and literary skills. Students comprehend, analyse, interpret, evaluate and create analytical, imaginative, interpretive and persuasive texts in a range of written, oral, multimodal and digital forms.

Unit 1

Unit 1 focuses on students comprehending and responding to the ideas and information presented in texts.

Students:

Employ a variety of strategies to assist comprehension.

Read, view and listen to texts to connect, interpret and visualise ideas.

Learn how to respond personally and logically to texts by questioning, using inferential reasoning and determining the importance of content and structure.

Consider how organisational features of texts help the audience to understand the text.

Learn to interact with others in a range of contexts, including every day, community, social, further education, training and workplace contexts.

Communicate ideas and information clearly and correctly in a range of contexts.

Apply their understanding of language through the creation of texts for different purposes.

Unit 2

Unit 2 focuses on interpreting ideas and arguments in a range of texts and contexts.

Students:

Analyse text structures and language features and identify the ideas, arguments and values expressed.

Consider the purposes and possible audiences of texts.

Examine the connections between purpose and structure and how a text’s meaning is influenced by the context in which it is created and received.

Integrate relevant information and ideas from texts to develop their own interpretations.

Learn to interact effectively in a range of contexts.

Create texts using persuasive, visual and literary techniques to engage audiences in a range of modes and media.