English Language
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Below you will find information on the course with a link to the Course Curriculum.
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Year 12
Students learn terminology / grammar once a week to ensure knowledge is secure in preparation for later units.
Students start the course with Child Language acquisition to give them a solid grounding in phonetics and the early stages of language formation which gives them building blocks to support effective data analysis as the course progresses.
By also starting the course in tandem with Language Variation, which is the largest unit, students are again introduced to key concepts and theories that they will need to apply across all areas and units of the Language curriculum.
Coursework introduction is left until the Summer Term as their commentary will need to include much of the linguistic analysis and application of key concepts and theories studied earlier in the year. This also allows students time to work on their coursework over the Summer Holidays and plenty of time to re-draft during the beginning of Year 13.
Autumn |
Child language acquisition - speaking grammar. Individual Variation. Mode, field, function, audience, age, occupation, regional language, power. Grammar. One lesson a week. |
Spring |
Child Language acquisition. Reading, writing Individual Variation. Power, Gender Individual Variation. Gender / technology Grammar. One lesson a week |
Summer |
Creative Writing Coursework Preparation. Language Variation: Language Change. Weekly Language variation / Grammar revision lessons. |
Year 13
In Year 13 students continue to study language: context and identity. Individual variation explores the range of contexts in which language is produced and received as students explore how language changes over time. Students will apply appropriate methods of language analysis to a range of written and spoken data taken from 19th, 20th and 21st Century sources, using key language frameworks.
The exam board pre-release a specific subtopic on Language and Power in December of the Year 13 course to be examined in May/June. Students analyse how the language of writers / speakers reflects and constructs their identity or identities.
Autumn |
Coursework redrafting and finalisation Language Variation: Language Change Language Investigation: Language and Power |
Spring |
Language Investigation: Language and Power |
Summer |
Revisit and reteach identified areas and key concepts |