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11–12English Studies 11–12 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation from 2026
Expand for detailed implementation advice

Content

Life Skills

Understanding and responding to texts
Understanding language forms and features
  • Explore home languages and language connections within the class or community

  • Recognise the differences in formal and informal register

  • Recognise how information is conveyed in texts

  • Recognise ways language forms, features or structures can create meaning in a text

  • Recognise ways language forms and features change according to purpose and audience

Responding to ideas and experiences in texts
  • Express agreement or disagreement with ideas and perspectives presented in texts

  • Identify the message, values or experiences in a text

  • Identify personally relevant and important themes presented in texts

  • Explore how different characters in texts respond to a particular theme or issue

  • Explore different perspectives on a particular topic, theme or event

  • Understand how culture and identity influence personal responses to texts

  • Respond to a text by providing a personal opinion or perspective

  • Identify how a personal opinion can be changed in response to a text

  • Demonstrate respect for the ideas of others

Context and texts
  • Identify how texts can represent a particular time or event

  • Recognise that an author’s personal experiences can shape meaning in a text

  • Recognise that audience responses to texts can vary

  • Identify that texts represent a diverse range of lived experiences or cultural perspectives

  • Recognise how context influences audience, ideas and attitudes

Relationships between texts
  • Recognise connections between ideas and features within texts

  • Compare texts on a similar theme

  • Use strategies to organise information and make connections between ideas in texts

  • Understand the impact of texts on personal understanding of the world

  • Explore how different audiences value texts for different reasons

  • Compare adaptations or appropriations of texts to the source text

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