Grade 12 · UK English / A Level · Arts Branch · Semester 1 · 2026–2027

Grade 12 UK English — A Level Arts Branch

This semester focuses on two advanced areas of English Language: Language Change and Child Language Acquisition. Students move from analysing how English changes over time to examining spoken language, early language development, and theories of acquisition, before finishing with past-paper practice.

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The semester journey — click a point to jump to that week.

Semester structure

The course progresses through Section 7 and Section 8 before moving into past-paper practice.

Section 7

Language Change

Weeks 1–6

How English has changed, how change happens, digital language change, theories, data collection, and measuring change.

Section 8

Child Language Acquisition

Weeks 7–15

Spoken language, conversational interaction, transcription, stages of development, functions of children's language, and theories of acquisition.

Break

Autumn Break

Week 14 · Nov 22

Autumn Break.

Practice

Past Papers

Weeks 16–17

Past-paper practice.