English Language Education KLA
Direction
The direction for curriculum development is to enhance students’ experience by providing a language-rich environment through:
- providing greater opportunities for students to use English for purposeful communication both inside and outside the classroom;
- making use of student-centred instruction to encourage learner independence;
- making greater use of literary or imaginative texts to develop critical thinking and encourage free expression and creativity; and
- promoting language development strategies, values and attitudes that are conducive to effective, independent and lifelong learning.
Overall aims
The overall aims of our curriculum are:
- to provide every student of English with further opportunities for extending their knowledge and experience of the cultures of other people as well as opportunities for personal and intellectual development, further studies, pleasure and work in the English medium; and
- to enable every student to prepare for the changing socio-economic demands resulting from advances in information technology; these demands include the interpretation, use and production of materials for pleasure, study and work in the English medium.
Subject targets
The subject target of English Language is for students to develop an ever-improving capability to use English:
- to think and communicate;
- to acquire, develop and apply knowledge; and
- to respond and give expression to experience;
and within these contexts, to develop and apply an ever-increasing understanding of how language is organized, used and learnt.
Subject objectives
The subject objectives are:
