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English as an Additional Language Stage 1
Subject outline

Version 4.0
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 | Content | Text creation skills and strategies

Text creation skills and strategies

Students create oral, written, and multimodal texts, using a range of language skills appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.

For example, they:

  • create different types of texts to communicate ideas and opinions for different purposes and audiences, such as in an academic or business context
  • use a range of digital, multimodal, social media, and print‑based technologies
  • experiment with a range of stylistic features and structural devices
  • develop research skills and strategies to collect, collate, and integrate information to achieve a purpose
  • use e‑literacy skills and understand context-appropriate etiquette and expectations
  • plan, rehearse, and edit to refine language and structural choices in their texts.