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English / EAL

English Language

Literature

English explores how writers and directors present their views and values, and how they construct a text for a reader or audience.

Skills and knowledge include:

• Analyse the ways writers argue their point of view in the media
• Present a point of view
• Read, watch or listen to a range of short stories, podcasts, speeches, song lyrics/poems etc as models of effective texts
• Write your own creative, informative, persuasive or hybrid responses
• Consider the effect texts such as films, novels, plays, short stories, memoirs etc have on an audience
• Analyse writers' and directors' messages
• Use metalanguage

English Language explores the construction of sentences and the ideas conveyed through language.

Skills and knowledge include:·         Word

•  Word origins

• Grammar

• Changes in language over time

• Sub-systems of language

• Use metalanguage

• Contemporary examples

• Explore audience and purpose
• ·         Language acquisition
• ·         Analytical commentaries on transcripts

Literature explores language and the stylistic and aesthetic qualities of texts.

Skills and knowledge include:·        

• Write creatively on a text

• Explore critical theory

• Investigate the contexts of texts

• Unearth the writer’s views and values

• Study text adaptations

• Classic and contemporary texts

• Closely analyse language

A general course that covers many areas

This subject is for those:·    

• Interested in looking at the way the media manipulates audiences

• Wanting to choose a familiar course

• Wanting to build literacy skills

• Careers in anything that requires you to read, write, speak, listen and think.

Supercharged language analysis

This subject is for those:·     

• Interested in English as a language or studying a second language

• Wanting to try something different, with more concrete answers

• Careers in speech pathology, sociology, teaching and where root words are important: medicine (veterinary and nursing), law, science and mathematics

For those who love reading

This subject is for those:·    

• Interested in reading a variety of texts with different audiences and purposes

• Wanting to explore Literature

• Wanting to read texts from different time periods

• Careers in writing, law, criticism, journalism, publicity, publishing, media and education