English Language Course Content

 A Level English Language allows you to creatively and critically engage with various texts while building on your GCSE skills. You’ll explore spoken and written language in different contexts, focusing on:

• Analysing and comparing texts
• The mechanics of spoken language and relevant theories
• Language variation related to identity, social groups, gender, power, accent, and dialect
• Language change over time
• Child Language Acquisition

The course includes a coursework folder featuring original writing and a language investigation project.

Modules:

• Year 1: Analyse spoken and written texts and study language variation influenced by gender, occupation, and social groups.
• Year 2: Study Child Language Acquisition and Language Change, develop article-writing skills, and complete the coursework folder with a storytelling piece and a data analysis project using linguistic theories.