Year 12 · VCE / English Language
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- Reopen the source and correct the first mistake or omission you find.
- Add one example and one question to test whether you can apply the idea.
Topics in the resource inventory
- Informal syntax, spoken discourse and social purpose
- Informality, register and context
- Phonological & Prosodic Features and Their Effects
- Sounds and words of informal English
- The Six Subsystems: A Metalanguage Toolkit
- Word Formation, Neologisms & Lexical Choice
- Cohesion and coherence
- Discourse, Pragmatics & Conversational Strategies
- Features of formal language across the subsystems
- Semantics: Meaning, Change & Figurative Language
- Social purposes of formality: authority, politeness, evasion
- Syntactic Features & Patterning
- Attitudes to variation: prescriptivism and descriptivism
- Australian English: Accent, Lexicon & National Identity
- Ethnolects and Aboriginal Australian Englishes
- Standard Australian English and Australian accents
- Code-switching, style-shifting and constructing identity
- Idiolect, sociolect and the performance of self
- Jargon, slang and taboo: the lexicon of belonging
- Language, Power, Euphemism & Public Discourse
Resource inventory inspected 4 November 2026. The main ATARMAXXING study platform is separate from tutoring. Topic labels show what was found, not a guarantee of complete curriculum coverage or tutor availability.
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