5. Your Turn – Understand the Rubric

Year 12 Mod A: Language, Identity and Culture

Language has the power to both reflect and shape

individual and collective identity.

In this module, students consider how their responses to written, spoken, audio and visual texts can shape their self-perception. They also consider

the impact texts have on shaping a sense of identity

for individuals and/or communities. Through their responding and composing students deepen their understanding of how language can be used to

affirm, ignore, reveal, challenge or disrupt prevailing assumptions and beliefs

about themselves, individuals and cultural groups.
Students study one prescribed text in detail, as well as a range of textual material to explore, analyse and assess the ways in which meaning about individual and community identity, as well as

cultural perspectives

, is shaped in and through texts. They investigate how

textual forms and conventions, as well as language structures and features,

are used to

communicate information, ideas, values and attitudes

which inform and influence perceptions of ourselves and other people and various cultural perspectives.
Through reading, viewing and listening, students analyse, assess and critique the specific language features and form of texts. In their responding and composing students develop increasingly complex arguments and express their ideas clearly and cohesively using appropriate

register, structure and modality.

Students also experiment with language and form to

compose imaginative texts that explore representations of identity and culture,

including their own. Students draft, appraise and refine their own texts, applying the conventions of syntax, spelling and grammar appropriately and for particular effects.