Course Description
The Grade 12 ELA course, as the final year of high school, focuses on developing advanced and versatile language proficiency. Students engage with complex issues in global literature and contemporary society, while expressing personal perspectives through analytical essays and academic speeches. Assignments require students to make interdisciplinary connections, demonstrate deep critical thinking, and write with a professional style.
By the end of the course, students will be able to participate in academic examinations, craft university admission essays, and communicate confidently in academic settings or international professional environments.
🔹 Learning Content
1. Text Types
The Grade 12 ELA curriculum introduces students to a body of global texts that reflect diverse philosophical, social, and cultural perspectives. Literary texts include world novels, contemporary international poetry, social dramas, and symbolic works from various cultural traditions. Informational texts encompass academic research papers, critical reviews, political and philosophical essays, and interdisciplinary writings connected to fields such as economics, the arts, technology, and globalization. Students are encouraged to engage with original texts, research report excerpts, and specialized academic materials.
2. Reading Skills
Reading at Grade 12 requires students to analyze, synthesize, and critically evaluate texts of high complexity in content, language, and structure. Students develop the ability to identify argumentative frameworks, assess the validity and coherence of viewpoints, and analyze the relationship between a text and its intellectual or social context. The reading component includes texts with multiple layers of meaning, requiring close study of symbolic language, implied tone, and rhetorical intent. Students refine skills in critical reading, interdisciplinary thematic reading, and selective engagement with research materials to support independent academic work.
3. Writing Skills
The Grade 12 writing program emphasizes producing advanced academic texts that demonstrate independent thinking, in-depth research, and mastery of specialized language. Students practice multi-source synthesis essays, specialized research papers, social critique writings, and written products modeled on university-level academic standards. Each assignment requires clear structure, accurate citations, logically organized content, and academically supported personal viewpoints. The ability to manage the writing process, self-edit, evaluate, and refine work is an essential part of the learning experience.
4. Listening & Speaking Skills
Students refine academic presentation skills by delivering thematic, critical, and interdisciplinary oral tasks. Listening materials include in-depth lectures, academic conferences, and research podcasts, requiring analytical note-taking, evaluation of argument quality, and formulation of complex responses. Individual presentations are constructed with formal structure, academic evidence, an appropriate formal tone, and relevant supporting media. Students develop professional communication skills to confidently engage in academic discussions, interviews, or debates in post-secondary educational and professional environments.
5. Language
The language component in Grade 12 is designed to perfect the accurate, flexible, and academically sophisticated use of English. Students master complex academic sentence structures, construct multi-functional paragraphs, and develop cohesive texts that integrate explanation, synthesis, and generalization. Editing activities focus on standardizing style, ensuring consistency in expression, and reinforcing logical argumentation. Vocabulary development includes expanding discipline-specific terminology, international academic language, and expressions suited to diverse academic contexts.
🔹 Learning Methodology
In the personalized online Grade 12 ELA program, instruction is designed to fully refine students’ academic, research, and communication competencies at the highest level of high school study. Teachers implement advanced, academically oriented learning activities that focus on global themes, international literature, and multi-dimensional socio-philosophical issues, requiring students to analyze, synthesize, and critically evaluate based on independent research.
Learning tasks include research essays, academic critiques, thematic presentations, and multi-text responses, all of which demand that students articulate well-supported personal viewpoints and maintain a consistent academic style. Students are expected to take ownership of their learning process, skillfully apply the academic competencies they have developed, adapt language to suit various text types and presentation contexts, and demonstrate independent thinking, persuasive expression, and readiness for the demands of university study and professional environments.
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