Our A-level English Language specification offers opportunities for students to develop their subject expertise by engaging creatively and critically with a wide range of texts and discourses. Students will create texts and reflect critically on their own processes of production, while analysing the texts produced by others. The specification explores the study of English language both as a medium of communication and as a topic in its own right, with an emphasis on the ability of students to pursue lines of enquiry, debate different views, and work independently to research aspects of language in use. Language is seen as a creative tool for expression and social connection, as well as for individual development. The study of language as a symbolic system used to assert power in society is also fundamental to the scope of this specification. The methods of analysis appropriate to the fields of English language/linguistics underpin all the elements of this specification, and these are applied to distinctive topic areas. There is also scope for students to pursue their own independent lines of enquiry and topics for writing, with support from their teachers, in the non-examination assessment. We start with 'Language, the individual and society' focusing on individual and immediate social contexts for language. We then move on to 'Language diversity and change', working outwards to consider larger-scale public discourses about change and variety, drawing on regional, ethnic, national and global Englishes. This specification draws academic insights from a range of fields within the study of English language/linguistics, including sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. In summary, our A Level English Language specification offers a common core of analytical methods, topics and skills that have proven value.
Name: English Language Qualification title: GCE A Level in English Language Qualification type: GCE A/AS Level or equivalent Assessment Awarding Assessment & Qualifications Alliance Created 20151209 10:16:22 Updated 20160318 14:58:21
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