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English Language
Course Breakdown
Course Summary
• Exam board is AQA
Paper Content Marks Duration Weighting
Paper 1 Language, the individual and Society 100 2 hours
30 minutes 40%
Paper 2 Language Diversity and Change 100 2 hours
30 minutes 40%
NEA
(non-examined
assessment) Assessed by teachers. Two pieces:
• Investigation
• Original Writing 40 N/A 20%
Summary of Content: A level Section B – Language discourses
Language, the individual and Society Two texts about a topic linked to the study of diversity
and change.
Section A – Textual variations and representations
Two texts (one contemporary and one older text)
linked by topic or theme. These can be almost any
genre or style.
• A question requiring analysis of one text
(25 marks)
• A question requiring analysis of a second text
(25 marks)
• A question requiring analysis of how the texts use
language to present ideas, attitudes and opinions.
• A directed writing task linked to the same topic and
the ideas in the texts.
Non-examined assessment
Students produce:
• A question requiring comparison of the two texts
(20 marks) • A language investigation
(2,000 words excluding data).
Section B – Children’s language development • A piece of original writing and commentary
(1,500 words total).
A discursive essay on children’s language development,
with a choice of two questions where the data provided
will focus on spoken, written or multimodal language
(30 marks).
Language Diversity and Change
Suggested Preparation for September
Read Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson for a great overview
of the subject and an introduction to linguistics.
Section A: One question from a choice of two, either:
• An evaluative essay on language diversity.
• An evaluative essay on language change.
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