If your heart is set on studying A-Levels and would like an environment that is different from the traditional school environment, then A-Levels at MidKent College could be your perfect next step.

Based at our Sixth Form Centre in Maidstone, you will be taught by specialist lecturers who will support you to gain the qualifications, skills and confidence to progress to university-level study, an apprenticeship, or into employment.

You will study three A-Levels over a two-year period. Please confirm your preferred A-Level subjects through the application process. (Within the A-Level application process, please read the information for all the subjects you are interested in studying prior to applying, once you are ready to apply – choose 1 of your choices- at this point you will see two sets of drop-down boxes to choose your remaining 2 subjects.)

English Language (Awarding Body: AQA)

A-Level English Language will challenge your ability to analyse and evaluate, as well as teach research and investigative skills. Over the two years, we will investigate how language develops in childhood, and what your vocabulary and accent suggest about you. You will study the distinctive features of genres through feature articles, journalist interviews, speeches, scripted presentations, dramatic monologues, short stories, and travel writing.

This is a linear course and will be assessed as follows:

• Language Variation (exam 35%) – What is identity? How does language vary based on gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, class, education, and occupation?
  
  
• Child Language (exam 20%) – What do developmental psychology; theories of behaviourism and cognitivism; and nativism versus innateness, suggest about learning language, grammar use and accent?
  
  
• Investigating Language (exam 25%) – Exploring aspects of global English varieties, including language use in journalism, and power language, leading to a research and investigation task requiring data analysis and evaluation.
  
  
• Crafting Language (coursework 20%) – Here you will pursue your own interests and demonstrate your skills as a writer, crafting original texts for different audiences and purposes alongside which, you will create a commentary on both pieces of original writing to reflect on the decisions you made during the drafting process in order to ‘craft’ language.