Key SACE English Vocabulary

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Audience

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The group of readers, listeners, or viewers that the writer, filmmaker, or speaker is addressing. It includes real and implied audiences such as individuals, students in the classroom, and the wider community.

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Context

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The environment in which a text is responded to or created, including social, historical, and cultural conditions (context of culture) or specific features of its immediate environment (context of situation).

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Convention

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An accepted practice that has developed over time and is generally used and understood, such as specific structural aspects of texts like sections in report writing.

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Intertextuality

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The shaping of a text’s meaning by the reading of other texts or the interrelationship of texts, such as borrowing from or transforming another text.

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Language features

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Features of language that support meaning, such as sentence structure, vocabulary, punctuation, and figurative language. These choices vary according to the text's purpose, subject matter, audience, and communication mode.

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Literary text

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Texts valued for their form and style, recognized as having enduring or artistic value, and spanning past and contemporary works across cultural contexts.

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Medium

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The resources used in the production of texts, including tools and materials like digital text and computers, writing and pens, or typewriters.

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Metalanguage

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Specialized language used to refer to technical aspects of the study of English, such as language used to discuss film or literary study or grammatical terms.

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Mode

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The various processes of communication: listening, speaking, reading/viewing, and writing/creating, as well as the semiotic resources associated with these processes.

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Multimodal text

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A combination of two or more communication modes, such as combining print, image, and spoken text in film or computer presentations.