English Language A: Language and Literature (HL/SL)

Entry Guidance

English Language A: Literature and Language is recommended for the first language student or for those students who have a high level of fluency in English. Any student interested in selecting English Language A: Literature and Language at HL or SL must have had previous formal literary experience and training and be confident and capable of writing critical essays about texts.

Course Aims

The aims of all subjects in studies in language and literature are to enable students to:

• Engage with a range of texts, in a variety of media and forms, from different periods, styles, and cultures.

• Develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, presenting and performing.

• Develop skills in interpretation, analysis and evaluation.

• Develop sensitivity to the formal and aesthetic qualities of texts and an appreciation of how they contribute to diverse responses and open up multiple meanings.

• Develop an understanding of relationships between texts and a variety of perspectives, cultural contexts, and local and global issues and an appreciation of how they contribute to diverse responses and open up multiple meanings.

• Develop an understanding of the relationships between studies in language and literature and other disciplines.

• Communicate and collaborate in a confident and creative way.

• Foster a lifelong interest in and enjoyment of language and literature.

Course Content

1. Readers, writers and texts 2. Time and space 3. Intertextuality: connecting texts

Assessment Outline

HL Assessment Component Weighting

External Assessment (4 hours) 60%

• Paper 1: Non-fiction textual analysis of two texts (2 hours 15 Minutes)

• Paper 2: Comparative literary analysis (1 hour 45 Minutes)

• Higher level essay (written in class)

Internal Assessment 40%

• Individual oral (15 minutes)

SL Assessment Component Weighting

External Assessment (3 hours) 70%

• Paper 1: Non-fiction textual analysis of one text (1 hour 15 minutes)

• Paper 2: Comparative literary analysis (1 hour 45 minutes)

Internal Assessment 30%

• Individual oral (15 minutes)

For Further Advice

Contact Frank Ventham, Head of English: Francis.Ventham@dulwich-seoul.kr