11–12English EAL/D 11–12 Syllabus
The new English EAL/D 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 EAL/D 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 11
Students explore, analyse, respond to and compose a selection of texts that are commonly encountered in community, vocational and academic settings. They investigate how these texts communicate information, ideas, attitudes and belief systems.
Students compare and contrast the types of texts that are used in community interactions, workplace communication and formal learning situations across different disciplines. They read and listen for specific content in texts to identify and explain the purposes, to distinguish between facts and opinions and to examine the similarities and differences in textual forms and language features. They consider what the texts indicate and imply about prevailing customs, norms, behaviours and organisational cultures in the social and vocational contexts in which they are used, and the construction of knowledge in particular fields of study and academic disciplines.
Explicit, targeted English language study centres on aspects of language usage, including recognising irony and humour, technical terminology, appropriacy and jargon, and understanding and using conventions of textual forms and language to shape meaning and influence responders (the reader, listener, viewer, an audience) in specific contexts.
The impact of variations in style and register in spoken and written texts in semi-formal and formal texts and contexts
The use of active and passive voice
Clause types, including declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamative
The ways in which verbal and nonverbal elements interact to shape meaning
Compose texts in a range of modes and mediums with appropriate application of language conventions including syntax, spelling and grammar
Compose a variety of texts in different modes and mediums to present ideas and opinions for different purposes and audiences
Use technical terminology, semantic fields, appropriacy and jargon in spoken and written texts particular to specific areas of society
Use the information and ideas gathered from a range of texts to present and support ideas in analytical, expressive and imaginative ways
Plan, draft and refine ideas and language in own texts for a range of purposes and audiences