Level 2 English (Foundation)

The focus of this course is to support students' engagement with a variety of texts and to nurture their curiosity about how visual and written language is used to create meaning and values.  Students are encouraged to independently choose a social issue to explore and develop their information literacy skills. There is a wide reading standard where students need to independently select a range of text types and analyse how their chosen texts communicate ideas about the experience of being human. The course is predominantly internally assessed with only one external written standard included. Students will be given opportunities to be assessed for a range of skills as well as extend their skills of reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, collaborating, and presenting. 

This course may give the opportunity for students to gain Reading and Writing UE Literacy credits. 

Three of the four achievement standards on offer in this course are internally assessed and therefore, it is important that students regularly attend classes to have continuity in learning and experience success.

Students are placed in this course by the English department and/or Year level deans.