Throughout this Area of Study, you will explore and examine relationships between language and text, and interrelationships among texts. You will examine closely the individual qualities of texts while considering the texts’ relationships to the wider context of belonging. You will also synthesise ideas to clarify meaning and develop new meanings as well as take into account whether aspects such as context, purpose and register, text structure, stylistic features, grammatical features and vocabulary are appropriate to the particular text.
This Area of Study integrates the range and variety of practices you undertake in you study and use of English. It provides you with opportunities to explore, assess, analyse and experiment with:
- meaning conveyed, shaped, interpreted and reflected in and through texts
- ways texts are responded to and composed
- ways perspective may affect meaning and interpretation
- connections between and among texts
- how texts are influenced by other texts and contexts.
In addition, you will explore texts of your own choosing relevant to belonging, drawn from a variety of sources, in a range of genres and media.
Outcomes:
1. A student demonstrates understanding of how relationships between composer, responder, text and context shape meaning.
2. A student describes and explains relationships among texts.
3. A student develops language relevant to the study of English.
4. A student describes and analyses the ways that language forms and features, and structures of texts shape meaning and influence responses.
6. A student engages with the details of text in order to respond critically and personally.
