Year 12
Students will engage in a study of language, the individual and society where
they will explore variations in language use and representation across a range
of texts and engage in detailed comparison of these. Students also explore
how children acquire language and in the examination, write a discursive essay
linked to this topic.

Year 13
Students will be involved in a study of language diversity and change, requiring
the writing of two discursive essays in a terminal examination; the first of these
will encourage an exploration of the way language has changed across time
and the second needs detailed knowledge of a topic associated with language
diversity and expertise in analysing unseen texts and data.

A coursework assignment will also be undertaken in year 2 of the course;
students produce a portfolio of two essays, comprising of a language
investigation exploring the use of language in practice and a piece of original
writing with associated commentary to enable candidates to demonstrate their
ability to use language according to genre effectively and then to deconstruct
and analyse their use of it.