Rationale of Advanced English Course for Students and Parents
The HSC English (Advanced) course is designed for students to become critical and sophisticated users of English in order to enhance their personal, social and vocational lives. The course provides students who have a particular interest and ability in the subject with challenging learning experiences and opportunities to enjoy the breadth and variety of English texts, through the integration of the modes of reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing and representing.
Students explore language forms, features and the structures of a variety of texts in a range of personal, social, historical, cultural and workplace contexts. They refine their understanding of the relationships between language and meaning. They respond to and compose texts critically and imaginatively, in order to extend experience, gain access to and evaluate ideas and information, and synthesise the knowledge gained from a range of sources to fulfill a variety of purposes. Students learn to use language in complex and subtle ways to express experiences, ideas and feelings. They engage in close study of texts and extend their knowledge of personal, social, historical, cultural and workplace contexts to understand how these influence the composition of and response to texts.
The course fosters an appreciation of aesthetic values and provides students with opportunities for enhancing their understanding of literary expression. Students explore the different ways in which texts rewrite and represent conventions used in other texts, and they consider how these representations achieve meaning. They learn that different ways of reading may produce different meanings and may reflect attitudes and values. Students are encouraged to value a range of approaches to texts so that they may become flexible and critical thinkers, capable of appreciating the variety of cultural heritages and differences that make up Australian society.
The course also encourages the development of skills in both collaborative and independent learning. Such skills form the basis of sound practices of investigation and analysis required for adult life, the world of work and post-school training and education. The course encourages students to reconsider and refine meaning and to reflect on their own processes of responding, composing and learning.
So ultimately, the aim of this collaborative assignment ……………………
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