English Language

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 also look at the future of the English language, accents, dialects and how the language is used around the world and the UK. Using your creative writing skills, you’ll take a work of fiction and recreate it from the point of view of another character. We also go on trips to the theatre and the British Library in London.

Course Outline

• Textual variations and representations
• Children’s language development
• Language diversity and change
• Language discourses
• Writing skills
• Language investigation
• Original writing

Assessment 
2 written exams: 2 hours 30 minutes each (worth 200 marks and 80% of A Level)

Coursework 
Language Investigation, Original Writing, Methods of Language Analysis are integrated into the activities assessed
Word count: 3,500 (worth 100 marks and 20% of A Level)
Assessed by teachers
Moderated by AQA

Exam Board 
AQA