<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nOne option that a number of students will select is to study their own mother tongue language as a school-supported, but self-taught language within the Group 1 framework. This option is only available at Standard Level.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGroup 1 courses are designed to support future academic study by developing high levels of language competence and communication skills as well as social, aesthetic and cultural literacy. Literature plays a central role in the courses, which aim to support lifelong learning through engaging students as actively as possible with the texts they study. Each course highlights a different perspective in the study of texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGroup 1 courses are suitable for students who have experience of using the language in an academic context. This is not a course with emphasis on grammar, syntax and other basic competencies in that language.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn Group 1 Language A: Literature courses have a focus towards developing an understanding of the techniques involved in literary criticism in context and promoting the ability to form independent literary judgments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Self-taught Languages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dp.uwcea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/language1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dp.uwcea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dp.uwcea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dp.uwcea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dp.uwcea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dp.uwcea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dp.uwcea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/dp.uwcea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dp.uwcea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dp.uwcea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dp.uwcea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dp.uwcea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
One option that a number of students will select is to study their own mother tongue language as a school-supported, but self-taught language within the Group 1 framework. This option is only available at Standard Level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Group 1 courses are designed to support future academic study by developing high levels of language competence and communication skills as well as social, aesthetic and cultural literacy. Literature plays a central role in the courses, which aim to support lifelong learning through engaging students as actively as possible with the texts they study. Each course highlights a different perspective in the study of texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Group 1 courses are suitable for students who have experience of using the language in an academic context. This is not a course with emphasis on grammar, syntax and other basic competencies in that language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Group 1 Language A: Literature courses have a focus towards developing an understanding of the techniques involved in literary criticism in context and promoting the ability to form independent literary judgments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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