AS English Language (WJEC - LG1 & 2) - Year 12
English Language is at AS level is taught in two broad units, one exam and the other coursework. The examined unit (LG1) comprises 60% of marks, and looks at the ‘Language of Texts’ and has a separate section looking at ‘Language Focus’ each with one compulsory question inviting students to analyse unseen set texts. LG1 carries 120UMS.
Coursework (LG2) at 40% comprises a creative task writing a fictional extract based upon genre study and a language investigation looking specifically at the spoken language of the media. LG2 carries 80UMS.
Every half term will generate an assessed piece of writing.
The course is dynamic, and follows the ever changing trends of a living and organic language, therefore the topics outlined below are subject to modification though with the core elements needed for close language study remaining.
| Half Term 1 (September - October) |
Introduction to the language of texts & Language Focus – LG1
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| External Assessment/Controlled Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No |
| Half Term 2 (November - December) |
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| External Assessment/Controlled Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No |
| Half Term 3 (January - February) |
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| External Assessment/Controlled Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes - Trial LG1 examination, w/c 12.3.12 Coursework Deadline this H/T: coursework begins after trial examination, first draft 20.2.12 Field Trips/Visits: No |
| Half Term 4 (March - April) |
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| External Assessment/Controlled Assessment: Yes Internal Common Assessment: No Coursework Deadline this H/T: LG3 to be completed by 22.3.12 Field Trips/Visits: No |
| Half Term 5 (April - May) |
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| External Assessment/Controlled Assessment: No Internal Common Assessment: Yes Coursework Deadline this H/T: N/A Field Trips/Visits: No |
| Half Term 6 (June - July) |
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| External Assessment: Yes Internal Common Assessment: Yes – analysis of art production Coursework Deadline this H/T: Students should be thinking of their titles for A2 coursework, with the data being collected during summer holidays Field Trips/Visits: Baltic/Laing art gallery |
Suggested Reading list
Mastering A Level English – Sarah Thorne
Rediscovering Grammar – David Crystal
www.Universalteacher.org – Andrew Moore
www.bl.co.uk – The British Library
www.bbc.co.uk/voices – BBC’s own archive of recorded talk
The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Languag’: David Crystal (CUP)
The Oxford Companion to the English Language: ed. Tom McArthur (OUP)
Varieties of English (2nd Edition): Dennis Freeborn (Macmillan)
WJEC also recommend the subject’s revision guide.
