11–12English Studies 11–12 Syllabus
The new English Studies 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 Studies 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
The following elective focus areas can be selected for Year 11 or Year 12.
Through the study of texts in this focus area, students develop an understanding of, and practical competence in, the use of language that allows access to opportunities in schooling, training and employment. Students have the opportunity to broaden their understanding of the relationships between education, work and community, and the importance of language and texts in these settings. Students will develop their skills across a range of textual modes related to the workplace and with other practical applications.
Students engage with a range of literary and other texts that expand horizons by showing, through an imaginative use of language, the variety and richness of people’s working, educational and community lives. Texts may include longer works such as films, novels, biographies, television series and drama texts, as well as extracts and short texts. Students develop comprehension strategies and improve skills that enable them to express themselves in English confidently, effectively, appropriately and with grammatical accuracy. Students develop skills that assist them to access and comprehend information, ideas and language in everyday and workplace texts, and compose appropriate texts in response.
The ways language forms and features are used to communicate ideas and shape meaning
Explicit and implicit meaning in texts
The ways mode and medium can influence language and structure
The ways that audience, purpose and context shape meaning in a variety of social, community and workplace texts
Compose a variety of texts that use language forms and features to present particular attitudes, values and perspectives
Compose critical texts that use appropriate evidence to support a clear point of view
Use complex sentences to communicate the relationship between ideas in a range of texts
Use appropriate textual forms and structures to communicate information and ideas