English Language and Literature is a dynamic and exciting course for students who feel they have enthusiasm and skill in both areas. It combines examining literary texts with using an understanding of how language works to create texts to suggest the speaker or writer’s identity. As you work on both English Language and Literature, you will examine how spontaneous speech operates in real life and how dialogue can be represented in texts. This course enables you to study a wide range of text-types, including fiction such as novels, short stories, poetry and plays and nonfiction varieties including memoir, articles, online texts and conversational transcripts. Lessons will mostly involve reading a wide variety of literary and linguistic texts; discussion of how language works in the texts we read; exploring how we analyse language-use in a wide range of written and spoken contexts; creating new fiction and nonfiction texts; working on writing-skills in order to be more creative, analytical and accurate. Sometimes there will be opportunities to create presentations, to watch performances of key texts on-screen or to visit theatre productions. This is the right course for anyone who has enjoyed both English GCSEs and feels they have cross-curricular language skills and interest, which encompass the literary and linguistic. If you enjoy reading fiction and nonfiction, appreciate the creative and analytical aspects of English work and have a passion for the written and spoken word, this will be the right course for you.