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 12
Students interpret and respond to texts that examine what it means to be human. They experiment with different approaches to textual appreciation and analysis, consolidating and building on skills in reading, speaking, listening, viewing, responding and composing. They undertake the study of ONE prescribed text and explore a range of short texts in a variety of forms and media. Students examine how texts provide insight into emotional, intellectual, physical, cultural and lived experiences and draw from personal experience to make connections between themselves, the world of the text and their wider world.
They consider the role of storytelling throughout time in communicating and reflecting the human experience. They explore how texts represent the tension between agency and conformity in our human experience, while examining the paradoxes of motivation and behaviour. Explicit, targeted English language study centres on structural, stylistic and linguistic elements, including the use of descriptive and expressive language in spoken and written texts. Students analyse texts, comparing and contrasting the ways composers, narrators and personas represent insights into the human experience and explore their own assumptions about the possibilities of human experience.
Comparative, temporal and consequential conjunctions
The impact of direct and indirect speech
The use of literary and persuasive features, including rhetorical devices, figurative language and dramatic irony, in familiar and unfamiliar texts
The ways arguments are presented in nonfiction texts
Compose creative, informed and sustained interpretations of texts supported by integrated textual evidence
Apply a range of language features in own compositions
Make connections with other texts through language, form and structure
Use cohesive links and discourse markers to show cause and effect in spoken and written texts
Use metalanguage to interpret texts and evaluate their own learning