Cambridge International AS and A Level English Language Coursebook

by Mike Gould, Marilyn Rankin

Overview

Updated and fully aligned with the Cambridge International AS & A Level English Language 9093 syllabus for examination 2021. This coursebook helps students take an active approach to developing and applying the key reading and writing skills they need to succeed in their AS & A Level English Language course. In the first part of the book, for AS Level, students will learn to analyse and write different text types, from diaries and blogs to reviews, speeches and narratives. The second part supports A Level study, building on the skills students have learnt at AS level and applying them to four specialist areas of English: Language Change, Child Language Acquisition, English and the World, and Language and the Self.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108455824
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Publication date:	02/21/2019
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1. AS Level: Unit 1. Reading non-fiction - reading and writing skills - types of question, language and style, key reading skills for responding to passages, planning and structuring a commentary, using evidence and quotations - types of non-fiction text - Descriptive writing, personal writing, persuasive writing, practice and self-evaluation; Unit 2. Writing non-fiction - approaching 'directed writing' questions, approaching 'writing for a specified audience' questions, planning written responses, text types and purposes, text types and key features, key focus - discursive writing and writing to argue, practice tasks; Unit 3. Imaginative writing - exploring imaginative writing tasks, key reading and writing skills, creating your own imaginative and descriptive writing, practice section; Part 2. A-Level: Unit 4. Text and discourse analysis - features of spoken language, speech strategies, transcribing speech, paralinguistic features, key points for discourse analysis; Unit 5. Spoken language and social groups - the context of spoken language, language used to include and exclude, non-standard features of English, speech sounds and accents, theories and studies of social variation in language, dialect, sociolect and ideolect; Unit 6: English as a global language - English and other languages, whose English is it? Kachru's Circles model, from British to global English, English - standard and non-standard, British vs American English, language death; Unit 7. Child language acquisition - the main stages of early development, language acquisition by children and teenagers, the functions of young people's language, theories of language acquisition; Index; Acknowledgements.