Students are required to demonstrate their ability to:
• understand and convey information;
• understand, order and present facts, ideas and opinions;
• evaluate information in reading material and in other media and select what is relevant to specific purposes;
• articulate and experience and express what is felt and imagined;
• recognise implicit meanings and attitudes;
• show a sense of audience and an awareness of style;
• communicate effectively and appropriately in standard English in formal and informal situations;
• acquire first hand knowledge if literary texts;
• understand literary texts in ways which may range from a grasp of their surface meaning to a deeper awareness of themes and contexts;
• recognise and appreciate ways in which writers achieve their effects
• communicate a sensitive and informed personal response to what is read.
