Welcome to VCE English

Language
  VCE EVCE English Language explores the ways in
What is which language is used by individuals and groups
and reflects our thinking and values. Learning
English about language helps us to understand ourselves,
the groups with which we identify, and the society
Language? we inhabit.
  When you are trained to examine how language
works, you become more skilled in handling your
Why study own language

English  Good writing

 Good communicating
Language
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Read the Study assigned Attend class,
Guide and activities and listen, discuss,
identify what readings, ask questions,
ideas you need to highlight, and take
focus on. annotate and notes.
take notes.
What do I
Complete
need to do? practice
writing tasks
Contact
teachers to ask
for help with
Condense all of
your rough notes
using the sample
texts, quotes etc. any concepts into revision
in your revision you are finding notes.
notes. difficult.
  Unit 1: Language and communication
AOS 1: Nature and functions of language

Areas of -Why do we use language and communication in

society?

Study and AOS 2: Language Acquisition

-How children from birth learn to use language and
Outcomes become proficient language users
Exam
  Unit 2: Language Change
AOS 1: English across time
-The history of the English Language, where did English
Areas of come from and what journey did it go through to get here
today.
Study and AOS 2: Englishes in contact

Outcomes -How can English changed in the world with contact from
other nations and people?
Exam
  Our study will be shapes by some key ideas known
as meta language
 Meta language is absolutely crucial to our
understanding and knowledge of this course
Meta  This language will take you all the way into year

language 12
 You need to have a firm grasp of meta language in
Year 11 so you are not covering old ground when
you get to Year 12
  These terms below are known as the subsystems
of language, we will investigate them further in
today’s lesson
 Phonology
 Phonetics
Main Meta  Morphology
 Lexicology
Language  Syntax
 Discourse
 Semantics
  To start our study I want you to open your book
and brainstorm the following question:
 WHAT IS LANGUAGE?
English  Write anything that comes to mind

Language  Then…
 How have you used language today? Come up with
10 different ways in which you have used language.