11–12English EAL/D 11–12 Syllabus

Language has the power to reflect and shape individual and collective identity. Students explore and analyse the ways that language is used to express the complexities and subtleties of personal, social and cultural identity. They investigate how textual forms and conventions, and language structures and features are used to communicate information, ideas, values and attitudes. Students also consider the impact texts have on shaping individuals’ or communities’ sense of identity in both personal and public worlds that inform and influence perceptions of ourselves and other people. Through the study of ONE prescribed text and a range of short texts, students develop an understanding of how individual perceptions of and relationships with others and the world are shaped by spoken, written and visual language.

Through close language study, and by experimenting with different language choices, students consider and reflect on ways in which texts affirm and challenge prevailing assumptions and beliefs about individuals, and social and cultural groupings. Explicit, targeted English language study centres on vernaculars, idioms, colloquialisms and other forms of expression representing aspects of individual and collective identity. Students consider representations of and perspectives on culture and identity and they reflect on their own and others’ experiences of adapting to changed circumstances.