Course Overview

This course helps you understand how language works, and how to use it to communicate ideas and information in English. You will get to use creative and critical thinking to produce ideas and arguments, and to develop critical literacy skills as well as personal, interpersonal and team working skills. You will also develop an appreciation of Scotland’s literary and linguistic heritage.

The course has three compulsory units plus an added value unit that assesses your practical skills.

English: Analysis and Evaluation (6 SCQF credit points)

In this unit you will; develop listening and reading skills in the contexts of literature, language and media and develop the skills needed to understand, analyse and evaluate straightforward texts.

English: Creation and Production (6 SCQF credit points)

In this unit you will; develop talking and writing skills in familiar contexts and develop the skills needed to create and produce straightforward texts in both written and spoken forms.

Literacy (6 SCQF credit points)

In this unit you will; develop reading, writing, listening and talking skills in a variety of forms relevant for learning, life and work; develop the ability to understand straightforward ideas and information presented in speech and writing and develop the ability to communicate written and spoken ideas and information with technical accuracy.

Added Value Unit: English Assignment (6 SCQF credit points)

In this unit you will investigate and report on a chosen topic, in speech or writing, and respond to questions on the topic.

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