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Overview

This course is designed to encourage students to gain greater confidence when using both spoken and written English. Throughout the course, students will have the opportunity to explore and reflect on the uses and structures of English and increase their own abilities at handling the language confidently.

This course is aimed at those who want to study English Language beyond that required for Key Stage 4 of the National Curriculum, and who have already achieved English GCSE grade C or equivalent. The Advanced GCE in English Language prepares students who wish to study English at degree level or equivalent and provides a wide range of opportunities for courses in the Arts, Humanities and Media and Communication in Higher Education.

Specification aims

The aims of these specifications are to encourage students to develop knowledge and understanding of the following areas:

• Frameworks for the systematic study of language at different levels of analysis, including phonology, lexis, grammar and semantics.
• Variations in language according to mode (speech and writing) and context.
• The application, and (in A2) the usefulness, of different linguistic frameworks for the description and analysis of speech and writing.
• How geographical, social, personal and (at A2) historical variation shape and change forms and meanings in language.