Secondary School
Sixth Form > Our Pathways
This course offers an engaging and up-to-date insight into the way the English Language is shaped through diversity, change and attitudes. Develop a sharp analysis of a range of text and data-based language sources and explore how the relationship between the producer and receiver is fundamental in conveying meaning.
Examination Board AQA
Specification Number 7702
Sixth Form > Our Pathways
This course offers an engaging and up-to-date insight into the way the English Language is shaped through diversity, change and attitudes. Develop a sharp analysis of a range of text and data-based language sources and explore how the relationship between the producer and receiver is fundamental in conveying meaning.
Examination Board AQA
Specification Number 7702
This course offers an engaging and up-to-date insight into the way the English Language is shaped through diversity, change and attitudes. Develop a sharp analysis of a range of text and data-based language sources and explore how the relationship between the producer and receiver is fundamental in conveying meaning.
Exploring the acquisition of language from childhood right through to how we use language to understand and express ourselves.
In this assessment, you will investigate an area of the English language to develop an understanding of how language is used in real-life contexts. This 2,000-word investigation will be accompanied by a piece of original writing and supporting commentary of 1,500 words.
The A Level English Language course will develop your own skills in writing discursively about language forms, in a variety of ways, to produce academic essays.
Mr Dale
A minimum of 5 9-5 GCSE grades, which must include a grade 5 or above in either English Language or English Literature.
Students must be prepared to work long hours outside lesson time to regularly review the topics covered.
| Assessment | Topic Area | Duration | Value |
| Paper 1 | Language, the Individual and Society | 2 hours and 30 mins | 40% |
| Paper 2 | Language, Diversity and Change | 2 hours and 30 mins | 40% |
| Assessment | Language in Action | Language investigation plus a piece of original writing with a supporting commentary. | 20% |
Students will sit all of the A Level exams at the end of the A Level course.
This qualification offers a wide range of opportunities, including English teaching, journalism, publishing and the advertising industry.
| Eats, Shoots and Leaves | L Truss |
| Literacy and Education | K Pahl and J Rowsell |
| The Language of Children | J Gillen |
| What Did I Write? | M Clay |
| The Stories of English | D Crystal |
| Lost for Words | J Humphrys |
| Vanishing Voices | D Nettle and S Romaine |
| Explorations in the Functions of Language | M Halliday |
| The Development of Writing Abilities | J.N Britton |
| The King's English | J.D Nicholl |
| Words on the Move | J McWhorter |
| Changing English | D Graddol, D Leith and J Swann |
| Language Diversity | D Clayton and R Drummond |
Mr Dale
Wood Green Academy is an 11-19 over-subscribed National Support School specialising in Sport, Maths and Computing.
