English Language

Course summary

A Level English Language is about: • Studying how individuals, groups and ideas are represented by the language that they use or the language that is used to describe them. • Investigating how the English language has changed historically and continues to change today. • Learning about how factors such as gender, social groups and age affect the way that we speak. • Researching the way in which, and reasons why, English has traveled across the globe and now exists in multiple varieties across the planet. • Going back to where it all began– asking the big questions like: How did we learn to speak? How did we learn to read and write? • Learning to produce high quality creative writng with the intention of entertaining, persuading or informing and how to carry out a language investigation.