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Module C: Language and Values

This module requires students to investigate, explore and evaluate the ways in which language shapes and reflects culture and values. It allows students to focus on the study of language as they develop their understanding of values and the processes of valuing.

(Reread English Stage 6 Syllabus , p 90)

Introduction to Elective 2: The Language of Sport

In their responding and composing, students explore the linguistic features of texts about sport.

In this elective students are required to study at least three of the prescribed texts as well as other texts of their own choosing which must include at least one ghost written biography of a sportsperson. They consider the assumptions about the nature of sporting prowess, any distinctions based on biological or sociocultural characteristics, and the significance of sport and sporting achievement within society.

Prose Fiction

· Coleman, Nick and Hornby, Nick (eds), The Picador Book of Sportswriting, Picador, 1997, ISBN 0330344595

Nonfiction

· Feinstein, John, A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour, Warner Books, 1996, ISBN 0751517240

Media

· Clarke, John and Stevenson, Ross, The Games, ABC, 1998

Film

· Gast, Leon, When We Were Kings, Polygram, 1995

Specific editions of the set text are listed. Schools, however, may use any suitable edition of the text selected, if the specified edition is unavailable. Where a text is quoted in an examination question it will be from the listed edition.