Stage 1 | Subject outline | Version control
English as an Additional Language
Stage 1
Subject outline
For teaching in Australian and SACE International schools from January 2024 to December 2024.
For teaching in SACE International schools only from May/June 2023 to March 2024 and from May/June 2024 to March 2025.
Accredited in May 2015 for teaching at Stage 1 from 2016.
Stage 1 | Subject outline | Learning requirements
Learning requirements
The learning requirements summarise the knowledge, skills, and understanding that students are expected to develop and demonstrate through their learning in Stage 1 English as an Additional Language.
In this subject, students are expected to:
- exchange information, opinions, and experiences through writing and speaking in a range of situations and contexts
- comprehend and interpret information, ideas, and opinions presented in texts
- analyse personal, social, and cultural perspectives in texts
- understand and analyse how language features are used to communicate for different purposes
- create oral, written, and multimodal texts, using a range of language skills appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.