Good day Grade 10 students,

Language is a tool for thought and communication. Learning to use language effectively enables learners to acquire knowledge, to express their identity, feelings and ideas, to interact with others, and to manage their world. It is through language that cultural diversity and social relations are expressed and constructed.

English Home Language provides for language proficiency that reflects the mastery of basic interpersonal communication skills required in social situations and the cognitive academic skills essential for learning across the curriculum. Emphasis is placed on the teaching of the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills at this language level. This level also provides learners with a literary, aesthetic and imaginative ability that will provide them with the ability to recreate their understandings of the world they live in.

• To acquire the language skills required for academic learning across the curriculum.
• To listen, speak, read and write the language with confidence and enjoyment.
• To use language appropriately, taking into account audience, purpose and context.
• To express and justify, orally and in writing, your own ideas, views and emotions confidently in order to become an independent and analytical thinker.
• To use language to access information for learning across the curriculum. Information literacy is a vital skill in the ‘information age’ and forms the basis for life-long learning.