English Language IGCSE

This course will help build your awareness of how the English language is used.

Fascinated by language?

This home study course will help develop an understanding of how the English language is used and its implications for the reader.

There are many practical activities and you will write for a variety of purposes, including entertainment, description and argument. You will also read a range of texts, including non-literary sources, and learn to analyse and evaluate them in a logical and methodical way.

Study this distance learning IGCSE from home at your own pace and improve your writing and language skills.

The Teaching Agency for Schools accepts grade C and above in IGCSE Maths and English for entry onto teacher training courses. Visit their website for further details.

Benefits

• understand a variety of texts written for different audiences and purposes: literature, poetry, non-fiction texts and the media
• communicate in writing with greater clarity and meaning
• gain fundamental skills involving effective grammar, punctuation, style and structure
• target your writing skills for your task: to entertain, to describe, to analyse, or to argue, persuade and advise

Topics include

• Personal writing: fiction
• Personal writing: non-fiction
• Reading non-fiction texts
• Writing to argue, persuade and advise
• The London Examinations Anthology (articles, poems and fiction)

Entry requirements and hours of study

• You will need a good command of English to take this course.
• You should allow 120-150 hours of study time, plus extra time for completing assignments.

Specification

Edexcel International 4EA0

Recommended texts

Anthology of English Language available from Edexcel. Enrolled NEC students can download a copy from the NEC Student Space.

Assignments

Two exams, 2hrs15mins (60 marks) and 1hr30mins (30 marks).
Nine NEC marked assignments.