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In the later secondary years students are supported to improve and extend their knowledge, skills and understanding in English by responding to and composing texts. They use the language modes of reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and representing to articulate how meaning is shaped in and through texts. Students expand their purposes and strategies for engaging with texts as they connect with a widening range of ways of communicating. Texts are not confined to the use of the written word and include oral, visual and Multimedia texts.
Students further develop and refine their knowledge of language forms and features to consider situations with detachment. This enables the development of a language selection for a broader range of purposes, audiences and situations.
Students are taught to engage in close textual analysis and reflect on the purposes and effects of conventions in texts. Students extend their interpretations of texts, develop more complex reasoning and justify arguments with substantial evidence from text and context.
They evaluate texts critically and imaginatively, dealing with them in more complex ways. They continue to develop their knowledge and understanding of, and skills in using, a range of technologies in order to respond to and compose texts.
Students consider the effects of personal, vocational, social, historical, cultural and workplace contexts on the ways that people respond to and compose texts. This leads them to understand the ways that texts reproduce experience and modify language practices, values, ideas and ways of thinking. Their composition reflects this understanding.
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