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 12
The following elective focus areas can be selected for Year 11 or Year 12.
Through the study of texts in this focus area, students consider how literature represents a diversity of cultural experiences and perspectives, and how it can teach individuals about distant and different places and cultures. This focus area gives students opportunities to extend their knowledge and understanding of language, culture and customs through texts that represent the experience and consequences of travel and tourism. Students develop intercultural understanding and broaden their perspectives of cultural and global issues in a contemporary world. By engaging with different cultures, places and communities through texts about travel, students critique and evaluate the effect that journeying can have on people’s lives.
Students engage with a range of literary and other texts that are encountered or produced as part of the experiences of travel, including advertising, journalism and filmmaking. They have opportunities to examine the language of blogs, reviews, travel advertisements and documentaries, as well as comprehend government advice about overseas travel. By considering the stories and perspectives represented in texts, students develop an understanding of the personal challenges and opportunities presented by travel.
The ways language forms and features are used to communicate ideas and shape meaning
Explicit and implicit meaning is created 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
The connection between 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
Compose texts that reflect on their choices in the writing process