English A

What Will You Learn?

• To use the spoken language of Caribbean Standard English;
• To respond and understand written and spoken english;
• Effective communication on inter-personal, intra-personal and group levels across cultures.
• How to monitor personal thought processes using meta-cognitive approaches.
• To articulate real or imaginary experiences on a personal level in spoken and written form.
• Willingness to inform yourselves on and contribulte to social issue discussions, expressing your opinion in a reasoned manner.
• To recognise and appreciate the many purposes for which language is used.
• Understanding and appreciation for the value and place of the various types of english and for the creoles and dialects of the region and other areas in cultural and social contexts;
• Foster critical awareness of the use of language devices in descriptive, narrative, argumentative and expository writing;
• To respond to literature for recreation and insight, realise and respond to the writer's craft, and make sensitive analysis of value statements and other concepts used in literature;
• To apply knowledge of the different forms of information for the students' own benefit, while recognising the importance of acknowledging source contributions to their own ideas; and,
• Be able to determine the reliability of information sources including those found on the internet.