Respect matters: English

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The English curriculum provides the opportunity for students to study written, spoken and visual language. Students learn about appropriate and inappropriate communication and the power of language to build and strengthen respectful relationships. Students use English in all its variations and develop a sense of its richness and power to evoke feelings, convey information, form ideas, and facilitate interaction with others. They also learn about the potential for language to be destructive and harmful and to recognise how texts can be used to manipulate thinking and behaviour.

Students deconstruct print, aural and digital texts to recognise and understand their social purpose in local, national and global contexts. They understand that patterns of language interaction vary across social contexts and types of texts and the ways that language functions and features may signal social roles and relationships. Students analyse how points of view are generated in visual texts and use literature as a lens to both reflect on and challenge historical and current social and cultural norms and values. Students develop the skills to recognise texts that are attempting to influence their beliefs about identity, power and relationships.

Students learn about literal and implied meaning of texts and how texts present different perspectives on an issue or event. They are guided to make informed decisions and to use digital media responsibly and ethically.

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Discuss how authors create characters using language and images - ACELT1581

Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences - ACELT1582

Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background - ACELA1460

Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created - ACELT1587

 

Discuss how authors create characters using language and images - ACELT1581

Discuss characters and events in a range of literary texts and share personal responses to these texts, making connections with students' own experiences - ACELT1582

Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background - ACELA1460

Discuss how depictions of characters in print, sound and images reflect the contexts in which they were created - ACELT1587

Understand that there are different ways of asking for information, making offers and giving commands - ACELA1446

Understand the use of vocabulary in everyday contexts as well as a growing number of school contexts, including appropriate use of formal and informal terms of address in different contexts - ACELA1454

Respond to texts drawn from a range of cultures and experiences - ACELY1655

Understand that language varies when people take on different roles in social and classroom interactions and how the use of key interpersonal language resources varies depending on context - ACELA1461