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A Level English Language
Exam Board
 AQA
Entry requirements
 Grade 5 or above in GCSE English or GCSE English Language
What will I study?
 A Level English Language is a fascinating course for anyone who wants to broaden their horizons while challenging their knowledge and understanding of how language is used and learnt both in the British Isles and around the world. You will learn how language is used to represent different groups, cultures and societies and how children learn and develop language. We will provide you with a variety of written, spoken and multimodal texts to help you develop your own critical, analytical and evaluative skills.
Assessment
 Paper 1: Language, the Individual and Society. 2 hrs 30, 40%
Paper 2: Language Diversity and Change. 2hrs 30, 40%
NEA: Language In Action (A Language Investigation plus a piece of Original Writing) 20%
What skills will I gain?
 You will learn how to apply different language levels of analysis to a range of written and spoken texts. You will be able to identify how people use language differently in order to achieve different outcomes. You will become skilled at identifying different uses of English and be able to analyse and evaluate these uses depending on representation, outcome and meaning. You will work independently at re-creating your own creative text as well as carrying out a language investigation into a topic of your own choice.
Studying beyond the classroom 
 Students are expected to be independent and motivated learners. They will need to be able to collect their own resource bank of case study material which they can then refer to in their exam. Students are expected to have an interest in the uses of everyday English and to question how and why Language is used to represent groups, societies and cultures. 
Future pathways
 As well as going on to study English Language or Linguistics at University, an A Level in English Language can lead to a career as a journalist, speech and language therapist, teacher (primary and secondary), lawyer, publisher, website producer, advertising and marketing, copywriter, broadcaster, English as a foreign language teacher and so much more.