English English Language Examination Board: Edexcel How do babies learn to speak? Is swearing offensive? Do men and women speak differently? The Edexcel A-level course seeks to answer these questions and more by taking you on an exciting journey of language through time, space and social contexts. It will start by giving you the tools for the job: the language levels. These methods of analysis (ranging from phonetics to grammar) will make you an expert at analysing the different aspects of language. No more will you fear the ‘bogey monsters’ of grammar, 58
complex sentences and the passive voice! You will become familiar enough with these concepts to debate with your peers the finer points of language choices that writers and speakers make. In this respect, the analysis you undertake will build upon your GCSEs, but also delve much deeper by addressing language in all its rich diversity. This course will appeal to students who have an interest in different times, places and people. You will learn to understand how a text’s context (social, cultural and historical) has had an effect on its creation and the ways in which it can be received; you will be provoked to debate and discuss the meaning
