ENGLISH LANGUAGE GCE A LEVEL

Course summary

In Year 12: Language and the Individual Study a range of texts from Shakespeare to a bus ticket! Methods of Language Analysis Learn how to analyse any text using a set of linguistic tools. Language Diversity Learn about dialects, sociolects, language and gender, language and occupational groups. Writing Skills How to write about language in both an academic form and for a “lay” audience. In Year 13: Language Diversity and Change How the English Language changes according to time, place, mode, purpose and audience and how it continues to develop. Children’s Language Development How children acquire language - both speech and writing. Language in Action How to conduct your own small scale investigation into an aspect of language. Writing Skills Original Writing - writing to persuade, tell a story or inform a specified audience.