Study Overview

The study of English Language explores the ways in which language is used by individuals and groups and reflects our thinking and values. Learning about language helps us to understand ourselves, the groups with which we identify and the society we inhabit. VCE English Language is informed by the discipline of linguistics and draws on a set of metalinguistic tools to understand and analyse language use, variation and change. The study of English Language at Marian College enables students to understand the structures, features and discourses of written and spoken texts through the systematic and objective deconstruction of language in use. 

Units

• Unit 1: Language and Communication

• Unit 2: Language Change

• Unit 3: Language Variation and Purpose

• Unit 4: Language Variation and Identity