International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
Language A: Language and Literature · SL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course.
Course units and learning goals
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme.
Readers, writers and texts · English non-literary analysis
- Analyse audience, purpose, register and multimodal choices
- Support interpretations of a non-literary text with precise evidence
- register
- Language choices suited to a purpose, audience and situation.
- visual hierarchy
- Arrangement that gives some elements greater prominence.
Time and space; intertextuality · Literary comparison and context
- Compare authorial choices across two selected literary works
- Explain how contexts shape meaning without reducing a work to biography
- intertextuality
- Connections and relationships among texts.
- narrative voice
- The perspective and manner through which a narrative is told.
Individual oral · A global issue across literary and non-literary work
- Form a focused global issue and select relevant extracts
- Balance extract analysis with whole-work or body-of-work discussion
- global issue
- An issue of wider significance that operates in local contexts.
- authorial choice
- A deliberate formal or linguistic decision shaping meaning.
Preparing for this qualification
- SL: one unseen analysis Paper 1 75 min 35%, comparative Paper 2 105 min 35%, individual oral 30%. HL: two unseen analyses Paper 1 135 min 35%, Paper 2 105 min 25%, HL essay 20%, oral 20%.
- English is the teaching focus. SL studies four literary works, HL six, plus non-literary bodies of work. School chooses texts under the guide; oral connects one literary work and one non-literary body of work through a global issue.
Teaching coverage still needed
- School-selected four/six literary works and non-literary bodies of work need detailed teaching and exact guide eligibility/reuse checks.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents
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Course preparation
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