English

The essential aim of teaching English at Junior Cycle is to 
reinforce and continue the work of the primary school in 
nurturing the intellectual, imaginative and emotional growth of 
each student by developing hls/her personal proficiency in the 
arts and skills of language. This personal proficiency involves 
three dynamically interrelated elements: 

• personal literacy
• social literacy
• cultural 
  literacy

Although these three elements must be separated for full 
delineation of their curricular significance, in the living context 
of English teaching they form an organic wholeness of 
experience. The interdependence of these elements is the 
essential foundation for the successful teaching of English in 
the Junior Cycle. 

The development of skills in speaking and listening should play 
as important a role as reading and writing skills in this English 
programme. Fostering an awareness in the student of the 
interrelationship of these skills, and of their central role in 
the learning and thinking processes, is an integral element of 
personal growth through English. 

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