Lord's Sixth Form College
studies the AQA B specification
in English Language.
Why choose English Language?
The study of this subject:
- provides students with a natural progression from their GCSE study of English Language
- encourages students to develop their interest in and appreciation of English, through learning about its structures and its functions, its developments and its variations
- allows students to develop their ability to express themselves in speech and writing, producing texts for different audiences, purposes and in different genres.
This course is particularly suitable for those students who wish to study English Language, Linguistics or English Studies in Higher Education. It encourages students to take responsibility for their own learning and gives them a strong grounding in the academic principles relating to working with data.
The workshop style of teaching and learning gives students academic confidence, as well as knowledge about the English Language. The specification is designed to encourage candidates to:
- develop methods of exploring and understanding spoken and written language in use.
- understand the roles of purposes, audiences and contexts and the impact of these pressures upon language production and reception.
- use linguistic methods to analyse and investigate a variety of extracts taken from everyday sources.
AS outline
At AS, this specification enables candidates to explore the fundamental structures and functions of writing, speech and conversation and how language functions in different social contexts:
- Unit 1: Categorising Texts.
- Unit 2: Creating Texts.
A2 outline
At A2, the specification explores the nature and functions of language, how its key constituent parts have developed under the influence of a variety of contextual factors and how these changes may be analysed and evaluated creatively:
- Unit 3: Developing Language.
- Unit 4: Investigating Language.