top of page

GCSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Level 2

One Year

IEEJAS PRASĪBAS

An opportunity to resit English GCSE.

NOVĒRTĒŠANAS METODE

This course is exam based.

About this course

This course is ideal for learners who would like the opportunity to resit English GCSE. The resit course will give students a different teaching experience to develop your reading and writing skills. Students will have the opportunity to enter for the November resit dependent upon the quality of work in the first few weeks of the academic year.

Students will be challenged to achieve at least a grade 4.

KURSA JOMA VADĪTĀJS

Maisie Krebs

Who is this aimed at?

This course is aimed at students who:

  • Would like to know how language works

  • Read and analyse non-fiction; (e.g. newspapers, biographies, blogs, magazines etc)

  • Are interested in why people speak the way they do

  • Love to write non-fiction (journalism, etc) and or fiction texts (short stories, dramatic monologues etc).

What will you learn?

Core Units:

  • Analysing a whole range of spoken, written and multi-modal texts (eg. newspaper articles, blogs, etc)

  • Apply a range of language theorists to spoken and written data

  • Exploring how contextual factors (age, gender, ethnicity, media, technology, religion, culture, etc) affect language choices

  • Child language acquisition in speaking, reading and writing.

  • Language and identity

  • Language change from circa 1550 to the present day.

What skills will you develop?

  • Analysing and evaluating fiction and non-fiction texts/genres.

  • Creative writing skills for fiction and non-fiction genres.

  • Critical reading and annotation  behaviours

  • Essay writing

  • Effort

  • Resilience

  • Meeting deadlines

  • Literacy and oracy communication skills

  • Teamwork

  • Problem solving

  • Self-motivation

  • Analysing and evaluating Early Modern to Present Day English texts.

  • Analysing and evaluating 21st century technological texts.

  • Researching different texts and language theories, issues and concepts.

Professional development

  • Teacher

  • Journalist

  • Broadcast Journalism

  • Creative Writing

  • Librarian

  • Speech and Language Therapist

bottom of page