Critical metalinguistic skills of inference, evaluation and language appreciation are seldom modelled for students or tested. The consequent student work demonstrated a high level of reproduction of factual and procedural knowledge. This certainly does not sit well with the Learning Outcomes of the Syllabus 2010 which seek to develop students’ higher order thinking and English literacy skills for real-world communication. of the Syllabus 2010 which seek to develop students’ higher order thinking an