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English Language and Literature |
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE A2 & AS
AQA
B SPECIFICATION
Why
choose English Language & Literature?
Most students are familiar with the
integration of language and literature at G.C.S.E. Consequently; many students
find it hard to choose between AS Language and AS Literature which have
different contents and methodologies.
Another reason students may not wish to
choose between these two courses is because they love both reading literature
and writing independently, and do not wish to have to choose one path over the
other.
This course is a very successful
hybrid, enabling students to study a range of literary and non literary texts
in some depth and to develop their reader’s and writer’s craft. It also
introduces students to modern literary theory which students – who may wish to
study Communication Skills, Media, Linguistics and Literary Stylistics at
university – will find very valuable.
What
does this course involve?
AS
Unit
1:
Introduction to Language & Literature
Study 35%
Unit
2:
The Changing Language of Literature
35%
Unit
3:
Coursework: Production of Texts 30%
A2
Unit
4:
Coursework: Text Transformation
15%
Unit
5: Talk in Life & Literature 20%
Unit
6: Critical Approaches 20%
How
is the course assessed?
Each course AS and A2 has two
examinable units and one coursework unit – the coursework units involving
original and editorial writing in a variety of forms and genres. Unit 6 is the Synoptic unit for the A2
course.
What
can I do to prepare for the course?
Read. Widely.
Listen. Think before you speak. Examine the complexity of each communicative
act. Be alive to language issues in the media and the ways in which the media
shape our perceptions.
Begin a personal writing and reading
journal which you complete carefully and regularly.
Why
is it valuable?
Language is for life and Literature is
for leisure. Perhaps. Yet while we can escape the
world through reading fiction, we can also explore what it means to be alive in
the real world in the fictive world. And we may wish to try to change the real
world through our own writing.
This course enables this exploration in
a critical and a challenging manner, and also gives students opportunities to
respond to texts and write their own.