250 – 300 Study Hours
Level 3 Difficulty
56 UCAS Points
AQA Awarding Body
Course Overview
All enrolments now will be for exams in Summer 2024 and beyond.
You will be required to complete the three standard written exams.
Official exams
- 2 hours 30 minutes, 40% of marks
- 2 hours 30 minutes, 40% of marks
- 1 coursework task, 20% of marks
We provide a guaranteed exam space in one of our exam centres around the Country, to take away the hassle of needing to find your own.
Assignments
During your course, you’ll be required to complete the following:
- 10 assignments
These do not contribute towards your final grade but provide you with an opportunity to submit work to your tutor for marking and feedback. This will help you to gauge your progress as you work through the course.
Course Content
- Phonetics, phonology and prosodics
- Graphology
- Lexis and semantics
- Grammar, including morphology
- Pragmatics
- Discourse
- The textual range (various subjects, writers, audiences)
- Functions of the texts
- Identity and representations
- How audiences are addressed and positioned
- Structure and organisation of the texts
- Phonological, pragmatic, lexical, semantic and grammatical development
- The development of written language
- The functions of children’s language
- Theories and research about language development
- Language in its wider social, geographical and temporal contexts
- Processes of language change
- Social attitudes to language diversity and change
- Studying texts that convey attitudes to language diversity and change
- Methods of conveying views and opinions about language issues: representations, identities and positioning.
- Connecting to discourses about language
- The directed writing task
- Choosing an investigation focus
- Carrying out the investigation (including ethics, record keeping and referencing)
- Organising and analysing the data and interpretation of findings
- Concluding your investigation
- An overview of the assessment and marking criteria, including organising and referencing work
- Choosing your area of original writing (Power of persuasion, storytelling & power of information)
- Choosing and analysing style models
- Producing a reflective commentary
- Revision Tips
- Exam Techniques
- Preparing for Paper 1
- Preparing for Paper 2

- Awarding body: AQA
- Our course code: X903
- Qualification code: 7702
The AQA qualifications are internationally recognised and taught in 30 countries around the world, highly valued by employers and universities and enable young people to progress to the next stage of their lives. AQA qualifications suit a range of abilities and include GCSEs, IGCSEs and A-levels.
Entry Requirements
It is strongly recommended that you have studied English language to GCSE or equivalent level before starting this course.
Why Distance Learning?
If your Sixth Form doesn’t offer the courses you want – Study an A-Level through distance learning. You will sit the same exams and get the same A-Levels as you would in school, but are able to study at a time and place to suit you.
Plus, the results and transcript you’ll get will be exactly the same as if you’d studied in school, and your A Levels will be respected by colleges, universities and employers worldwide.
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