English Language for Senior Students: A Guide to Metalanguage

Kirsten Fox, Selina Dennis, Sharyn O’Connell, Rebecca Swain

Insight’s English Language for Senior Students: A Guide to Metalanguage is an invaluable resource for Units 1-4 of the VCE English Language Study Design for 2016-2020. It offers clear and accessible definitions of all metalanguage, accompanied by engaging activities and sample responses. It will help all students to become confident metalanguage users, whether they start EL at Year 11 or Year 12. The book includes: an easy-to-navigate format, with metalanguage organised into subsystems; ‘Check your understanding’ activities and answers that enable students to monitor their progress; ‘Apply your knowledge’ tasks to develop students’ analytical and written skills; spoken and written language samples from both formal and informal registers to provide context for metalanguage exercises; an index for efficient access to metalanguage explanations.