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English / EAL

English Language

Literature

English explores how writers and directors present their views and values, and how they construct a text for a reader or audience.

Skills and knowledge include:

• Analyse the ways writers argue their point of view in the media
• Present a point of view
• Read, watch or listen to a range of short stories, podcasts, speeches, song lyrics/poems etc as models of effective texts
• Write your own creative, informative, persuasive or hybrid responses
• Consider the effect texts such as films, novels, plays, short stories, memoirs etc have on an audience
• Analyse writers' and directors' messages
• Use metalanguage

English Language explores the construction of sentences and the ideas conveyed through language.

Skills and knowledge include:

•  Word origins
• Grammar
• Changes in language over time
• Sub-systems of language
• Use metalanguage
• Contemporary examples
• Explore audience and purpose
• Language acquisition
• Analytical commentaries on transcripts

Literature explores language and the stylistic and aesthetic qualities of texts.

Skills and knowledge include:

• Write creatively on a text
• Explore critical theory
• Investigate the contexts of texts
• Unearth the writer’s views and values
• Study text adaptations
• Classic and contemporary texts
• Closely analyse language

Literacy explores language for personal use, the workplace and for advocacy.

Skills and knowledge include:

• Write personal responses
• Respond to a text
• Study and produce procedural and organisational texts
• Language for advocacy
• Language for project management

A general course that covers many areas

This subject is for those:

• Interested in looking at the way the media manipulates audiences
• Wanting to choose a familiar course
• Wanting to build literacy skills
• Careers in anything that requires you to read, write, speak, listen and think.

Supercharged language analysis

This subject is for those:

• Interested in English as a language or studying a second language
• Wanting to try something different, with more concrete answers
• Careers in speech pathology, sociology, teaching and where root words are important: medicine (veterinary and nursing), law, science and mathematics

For those who love reading

This subject is for those:

• Interested in reading a variety of texts with different audiences and purposes
• Wanting to explore Literature
• Wanting to read texts from different time periods
• Careers in writing, law, criticism, journalism, publicity, publishing, media and education

For those who are enrolled in VCE VM

This subject is for those:

• Wanting a practical approach to English
• Wanting language skills for the workplace
• Careers that require you to read instructions and manuals 
• Careers that require you to communicate and organise