If you enjoy learning about language, then the English language specification will stretch and challenge you by providing valuable insights into children's language development, how we use language to represent ourselves and how it is used by others, particularly the media, to represent individuals, groups, ideas, organisations or events. It will also help you to develop your skills in communicating knowledge about language to non-specialist audiences and in using primary and secondary research data to produce an independent study. You'll start off by exploring how different kinds of spoken, written and electronic language are used to create various responses from listeners and/or readers. You will be provided with opportunities to analyse others' language as you investigate representation and different types of language. Then, you'll move on to learn how children develop their spoken and written language. Children are born with the ability to cry. How do they move from crying to being able to say full words and understand how to organise words into sentence? How do they go from making squiggles on paper to actual writing? You'll explore these processes and how it all happens. Later, you will discover how the English language has changed since 1600 and how it continues to change. You will investigate how English varies globally, regionally and socially, looking at different accents and dialects and how they came to be. You will also examine cultural debates and controversies (is the language being ruined? are children becoming less literate?) and undertake a major piece of independent coursework on a language topic of your own choice. Unit 1 Language, the Individual and Society (exam) The aim of this part of the subject content is to introduce students to language study, exploring different varieties of texts, including spoken transcripts, and children's language development. This area of study introduces students to methods of language analy
Name: AS/A Level English Language Qualification title: GCE AS Level in English Language A Qualification type: Assessment Your achievement in this subject is dependent upon excellent attendance, punctuality and effort. You will learn in a friendly atmosphere, using a variety of assessment methods: 1. You will be assessed regularly on written essay work that is conducted either as homework or under timed conditions in class and given feedback on your progress. You also will be assessed regularly on linguistic terminology. 2. Discussions and presentations are a vital part of our assessment process and you will be expected to contribute to those and reading exercises. 3. You will review your own performance in 1:1 sessions with your tutor. 4. You will undertake mock examinations on each unit in advance of your final exams. 5. You will be formally examined on each unit that you study. The examinations are traditional and essay-based, and are sat at the end of the second year, although mock exams will be administered at the end of the first year to ensure progress. Coursework in the second year is compulsory. Awarding Assessment & Qualifications Alliance Created 20150903 13:13:19 Updated 20150903 13:13:19
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Title: GCE AS Level in English Language A Qualification: GCE AS Level in English Language A Classification: Languages, Literature and Culture