• Textual Variations and Representations: You will take a look at texts about various subjects, from different writers and speakers, aimed at numerous audiences for various purposes, in diverse genres, modes, times and places. This helps you to explore how language is shaped by these differences and contexts. • Children’s Language Development: You will learn how children develop their spoken and written skills through the assessment of various elements. • Language Diversity and Change: You will evaluate examples of language in use, such as those using different sociolects and dialects, those using language to represent different groups and those from different periods. • Language Discourses: You will review a range of texts conveying attitudes to language diversity and change, giving you the opportunity to explore how texts are produced to convey views and opinions about language issues. • Writing Skills: You will develop your ability to write in a discursive manner about language issues and analytically about texts as parts of discourses about language. You will write about language issues in a variety of forms to communicate ideas to a non-specialist audience. • Language Investigation: An option for you to investigate an area of interest to you such as the language of new communication technologies, the language of the media or the historical changes in English over time. • Original Writing: The chance to produce a piece of original writing based on The Power of Persuasion, The Power of Storytelling or The Power of Information, along with an accompanying commentary.
80% exam; 20% coursework
About Education Provider
| Region | North West |
| Local Authority | Oldham |
| Ofsted Rating | Good |
| Gender Type | Co-Educational |
| Address | Union Street West, Oldham, OL8 1XU |
• Textual Variations and Representations: You will take a look at texts about various subjects, from different writers and speakers, aimed at numerous audiences for various purposes, in diverse genres, modes, times and places. This helps you to explore how language is shaped by these differences and contexts. • Children’s Language Development: You will learn how children develop their spoken and written skills through the assessment of various elements. • Language Diversity and Change: You will evaluate examples of language in use, such as those using different sociolects and dialects, those using language to represent different groups and those from different periods. • Language Discourses: You will review a range of texts conveying attitudes to language diversity and change, giving you the opportunity to explore how texts are produced to convey views and opinions about language issues. • Writing Skills: You will develop your ability to write in a discursive manner about language issues and analytically about texts as parts of discourses about language. You will write about language issues in a variety of forms to communicate ideas to a non-specialist audience. • Language Investigation: An option for you to investigate an area of interest to you such as the language of new communication technologies, the language of the media or the historical changes in English over time. • Original Writing: The chance to produce a piece of original writing based on The Power of Persuasion, The Power of Storytelling or The Power of Information, along with an accompanying commentary.
80% exam; 20% coursework