English Language

Course summary

A level English Language offers opportunities for you to develop your subject expertise by engaging creatively and critically with a wide range of texts and discourses. As part of your studies, you will create texts and reflect critically on your own processes of production, while analyzing the texts produced by others. The course explores the study of the English language both as a channel of communication and as a topic in its own right, with an emphasis on your ability to pursue lines of inquiry, debate different views, and work independently to research aspects of language in use. You will consider how language is seen as a creative tool for expression and social connection with others, as well as for individual thought. You will also study language as a symbolic system that can be used to assert power in society. There is also scope for you to pursue their own independent lines of inquiry and topics for writing, in the non-exam assessment.