ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRIVATE COLLEGE TUITION

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English Language A Level & AS Level Courses

English Language is a challenging subject at A level and enables our students to analyse a wide variety of spoken and written forms of English. Students develop an understanding of linguistic features such as phonetics, phonology, morphology and semantics, as well as learning to critically evaluate attitudes towards language. The study of English language also involves close reading and interpretation a range of data, including written texts, transcriptions of speech and media sources.

Course outline

AS Level Course Outline

Component 01 – Exploring language

Understanding language features in context
Comparing and contrasting texts

Component 02 – Exploring contexts

Writing about a topical language issue
Exploring language in context

A Level Course Outline

Component 01 – Exploring language

Language under the microscope
Writing about a topical language issue
Comparing and contrasting texts

Component 02 – Dimensions of linguistic variation

Child language acquisition
Language in the media
Language change

Component 03 – Independent language research

An independent investigation of language
The academic poster

Assesment

AS Level

Component 01

Synoptic assessment
60 marks
1 hour 30 minutes written paper
50% of total AS level

Component 02

Synoptic assessment
60 marks
1 hour 30 minutes written paper
50% of total AS level

A Level

Component 01

Synoptic assessment
80 marks
2 hours 30 minutes written paper
40% of total A level

Component 02

Synoptic assessment
80 marks
2 hours 30 minutes written paper
40% of total AS level

Component 03

Synoptic assessment
40 marks
Non examined assessment
20% of total A level

Specification

Teachers will choose the examination board for students joining in Year 12 based on their expertise and specialist knowledge. For Year 13 and retake students, teachers will continue students’ studies with AQA, Edexcel/Pearson, OCR or WJEC/Eduqas. Please note that we do not offer CIE but can more than map to one of the boards listed.

Teachers

Benedict Tucker
BA (Cambridge)

Richard Searby
BA (Exeter)

Sophie Harrold
BA (Cambridge), MA (King’s), PGCE (Goldsmith’s)

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