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Stage 1 English as an Additional Language is a 10‑credit subject or a 20‑credit subject.

This subject focuses on the development and use of skills and strategies in communication, comprehension, language and text analysis, and creating texts.

Through studying a variety of oral, written, and multimodal texts, including informational and literary texts, students develop an understanding of text structures and language features. Texts could include, for example, a newspaper article, a podcast, a short story, an extract from a prose text, or a scene from a film. Students explore the relationship between these structures and features and the purpose, audience, and context of texts. Information, ideas, and opinions in texts are identified and interpreted.

Students develop confidence in creating texts for different purposes in both real and implied contexts. Students broaden their understanding of sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects of English, through their study of texts and language. They develop skills for research and academic study.

This subject focuses on the following skills and strategies:

• Communication skills and strategies
• Comprehension skills and strategies
• Language and text analysis skills and strategies
• Text creation skills and strategies.