English Language O'level

The study area SEC English Language is informed by the National Curriculum Framework (NCF). GSCE English Language is informed by Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF).

The study area is based on learning outcomes that will equip students with the writing, reading and communication skills required to achieve academic success. In general, it aims to meet the need to be proficient in English in order to be competitive in a globalised economic environment.

These programmes also embed learning outcomes related to cross-curricular themes, namely digital literacy, diversity, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, sustainable development, learning to learn and cooperative learning and literacy. In this way, students will be fully equipped with the skills, knowledge, attitudes and values needed for further learning, work and life.

At the end of the programme, the student will be able to: 

• Write different text types coherently using cohesive devices when necessary. 
• Write accurately and appropriately across genres for a different purpose and audience. 
• Plan, draft and revise my own writing. 
• Show understanding, retrieve and select information when I react to a different range of genres and age-appropriate texts written for a different purpose and audience. 
• Make use of interpretation, inference and deduction. 
• Understand text organisation and structure and recognise different techniques used by the writer/s. 
• Understand what people say to me in various situations. 
• Understand and take notes of continuous speech while listening for gist and subsidiary ideas. 
• listen to a conversation, presentation or dramatic performance and summarise the overt messages as well as the sub-text of motivation and bias. 
• Adapt my style to all familiar situations, observing the appropriate use of register and vocabulary while stating what I think and giving my reasons. 
• Ask appropriate questions to clarify my understanding on areas which are unclear and relay information that I have obtained by adding brief related comments. 
• While producing continuous speech, use appropriate, precise and correct language while focusing on intelligibility.
• Be consistent in my use of tense, voice, mood, person and number. 
• Demonstrate my understanding of how words behave together by using these patterns in context. 
• Produce various forms of discourse.