Learning requirements

The learning requirements summarise the knowledge, skills, and understanding that students are expected to develop and demonstrate through learning in Stage 1 Essential English.

In this subject, students are expected to:

1. develop communication skills through reading, viewing, writing, listening, and speaking
2. comprehend information, ideas, and perspectives in texts selected from social, cultural, community, workplace, and/or imagined contexts
3. identify and analyse how the structure and language of texts vary for different purposes, audiences, and contexts
4. express information, ideas, and perspectives, using a range of textual conventions
5. create oral, written, and/or multimodal texts appropriate for purpose and audience in real and/or imagined contexts.