English Language and Literature

Course summary

A Level English Language and Literature introduces you to a range of literary texts - prose books, scripts and poetry, and non-literary texts from different time periods, social attitudes, and cultures such as webpages, advertisements, and blogs. The course gives you the opportunity to develop independent approaches and to undertake individual, paired and group work, debates, and a mini teach. This develops critical understanding in analyzing the ways in which structure, form, and language shape meaning, evaluating the significance of contextual factors in a range of different texts.