11–12English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus
The new English Advanced 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2026.
2025
- Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2026, Term 1
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 11
- Start implementing new Year 11 school-based assessment requirements
- Continue to teach the English Advanced Stage 6 Syllabus (2017) for Year 12
2026, Term 4
- Start teaching new syllabus for Year 12
- Start implementing new Year 12 school-based assessment requirements
2027
- First HSC examination for new syllabus
Content
Year 12
Students deepen their understanding of how texts represent individual and collective human experiences. They examine how texts represent emotions and qualities related to these experiences. By responding to a range of texts, students explore how texts provide insight into emotional, intellectual, physical, cultural and lived experiences. They explore the ways texts represent identity, culture, acceptance and growth, invite the reader to see the world differently, and challenge assumptions. Students explore how texts can represent the tension between agency and conformity in our human experience, while examining the paradoxes of motivation and behaviour. Through critical and creative responses to texts, students consider the ways that texts encourage them to reflect personally and challenge their assumptions about the nature of human experience.
The language, forms and features of texts that shape meaning for different audiences and purposes in familiar and unfamiliar texts
The language, forms and features of texts that shape a range of perspectives, personal and public worlds, and diverse human experiences
The aesthetic qualities of texts and the power of language to express personal ideas and experiences
Language used for making connections, questioning, affirming, challenging and speculating about texts
The evaluative language and metalanguage used to make informed judgements about texts and express personal perspectives
Develop creative, informed and sustained interpretations of texts, supported by close textual analysis
Compose creative and critical texts that affirm or challenge ideas, values and perspectives represented in a range of texts
Compose texts using structures, language features and stylistic elements for specific audiences, to reinterpret ideas and perspectives