English Language

Course summary

A level English Language is not like GCSE. Although you still analyse non-literary texts (websites, leaflets, newspaper articles etc.), you learn to do this in a much more technical way – learning a lot about grammar. You also look at spoken texts – transcriptions of conversations – and how they work. As well as analysis of texts, you learn theory areas about language use, including: • Language and gender • Language and social class • Children’s language acquisition • Language change Finally, you learn to write in particular forms and for specific audiences, producing your own stories, articles and web-pages to appeal to different readers.