The overall aims of the English Language Education KLA curriculum are:
- to provide every student of English with further opportunities for extending their knowledge and experience of the cultures of other people as well as opportunities for personal and intellectual development, further studies, pleasure and work in the English medium; and
- to enable every student to prepare for the changing socio-economic demands resulting from advances in information technology; these demands include the interpretation, use and production of materials for pleasure, study and work in the English medium.
The curriculum framework for English Language Education is the overall structure for organizing learning and teaching for the subjects of English Language and Literature in English. The framework comprises a set of interlocking components including:
- Subject knowledge and skills, which are expressed in the form of learning targets under the Interpersonal, Knowledge and Experience Strands, as well as learning objectives;
- Generic skills; and
- Positive values and attitudes.