What Does the Course Involve?
By engaging creatively and critically with a wide range of texts, A Level English Language will enable you to build on the skills you’ve developed at GCSE. You’ll use exciting and relevant text and data-based sources in your study of English Language and consider how English is used in a number of different day-to-day contexts.
You’ll look at:
- Ways to analyse and compare a wide range of spoken and written texts.
- Spoken language – how spoken communication works, and theories that can be applied.
- Language variation – identity, social groups., gender, power accent, dialect, sexuality, the workplace.
- Language change over time
- Child Language Acquisition – how children learn to speak
- A non-examined assessment (coursework) folder, comprising a piece of original writing and a language investigation project.
Modules:
Year 1:
You’ll study ways to analyse and compare spoken and written texts – the terms and tools you’ll need for this. You’ll also study a range of debates around language variation including ways in which language is influenced by gender, occupation, accent, dialect and social groups.
Year 2:
In addition to the first year material, you will study Child Language Acquisition and Language Change. You will also learn the skills needed to write your own article.
You will also complete a coursework folder, comprising a piece of original writing (to tell a story, inform or persuade) and a Language Investigation project where you will collect and analyse your own data, applying linguistic theories and concluding.
