Learning requirements

The learning requirements summarise the knowledge, skills, and understanding that students are expected to develop and demonstrate through their learning in Stage 2 Essential English.

In this subject, students are expected to:

1. extend communication skills through reading, viewing, writing, listening, and speaking
2. consider and respond to information, ideas, and perspectives in texts selected from social, cultural, community, workplace, and/or imaginative contexts
3. examine the effect of language choices, conventions, and stylistic features in a range of texts for different audiences
4. analyse the role of language in supporting effective communication
5. create oral, written, and multimodal texts that communicate information, ideas, and perspectives for a range of purposes.