English Language/Literature A Level AQA

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This course brings together aspects of two other English A Levels, A Level English Literature and A Level English Language, which you have probably studied as separate GCSE subjects at school. There are real advantages in continuing your English studies on an integrated course. If you are as interested in non-fiction and non-literary texts as you are in poetry, plays and novels then this may well be the best choice for you if you do not want to take two full and separate English A Levels. In the first year you will begin with an introduction to analysis and text production to develop the range of writing and interpretative skills you will need to explore and create literary and stylistic features in your reading and writing. There will be a language production task and multiple occasions to practise analysing speech and its representation in texts. Other activities will include comparative analysis of unseen and different speech texts. This will develop your skills to examine speech, style and theme within a set text. In the second year the focus is on comparison and adaptation. You will learn how to complete a comparative analysis of three types of unseen text, as well as being able to take a text and change the form it uses, adapting other features to fit with its new purpose and audience. You will also complete an individualised piece of writing in the coursework task that is marked by your tutor and externally moderated by the awarding body. This will be a rigorously academic essay in which you will explore an aspect of two texts (at least one poetry) chosen from a list that your tutor will provide. Evidence of drafting is a requirement of this work and you will refine and develop excellent formal writing skills that are highly transferable and will serve you well at university and in employment.

Course information

Name: English Language/Literature A Level AQA Qualification title: GCE A Level in English Language and Literature Qualification type: GCE A/AS Level or equivalent Assessment The course contains regular assignments, with deadlines agreed by your tutor. Final assessment is by examination and coursework. Awarding Assessment & Qualifications Alliance Created 20160802 13:22:28 Updated 20161011 19:49:05

Entry requirements

A list will be provided at interview Equipment required A list will be provided at interview

Provider

Barnsley College
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Address

PO Box 266
Church Street Town: Barnsley County:South Yorkshire