The assessment of this qualification reflects the style of assessment adopted at university level, providing an ideal platform for higher education.
These assessment styles include data analysis, discursive essays, directed writing, original writing and research-based investigative writing. They help students to become excellent critical readers and evaluators of sources.
They also help students to develop and sustain arguments, as well as adopt a number of different writing skills which are invaluable for both further study and future employment.
This qualification is now available for teaching in China, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.
Information for November 2021 (GCSE), January 2022 (AS/A-level), and May/June 2022 (GCSE and AS/A-level) entries
In recognition of the challenges for teachers and students throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made changes to the exam arrangements for students taking their exams in November 2021, January 2022, and May/June 2022. These changes are designed to make assessments more accessible to students, whilst at the same time ensuring the qualifications remain valid and meaningful. Read more about advance information and adaptations.
International AS and A-level English Language (9670)
Unit 1: Language and Context (AS)
Unit 2: Language and Society (AS)
Unit 3: Language Variation (A2)
Unit 4 (exam OR NEA): Language Exploration (A2)
- Candidates may re-sit a unit any number of times.
- The best result for each unit will count towards the final qualification.
- Candidates who wish to repeat a qualification may do so by re-sitting one or more units.
Language and context
- Section A: Understanding texts
(Understanding context: audience, purpose, genre and mode.) - Section B: Directed writing
(Writing to a specific brief, involving the transformation of some or all of the material in Section A in order to create a new text.)
Language and society
- Section A: Language and social groups: texts
(Understanding the ways in which people use language to: express identities, construct and maintain relationships, mark group membership, claim power and status, and play and entertain themselves and others.) - Section B: Language and social groups: writing
(Developing the skills of academic argument in written language.)
Language variation (A-level only)
- Section A: Learning language
- Section B: International English
Language Exploration (A-level only)
- Written paper (Investigating data)
- Non-Exam Assessment (Researching an aspect of language use)
OxfordAQA provides all the resources and advice you need to teach the International AS and A-level English Language specification effectively.
- Download the specification
- View our training courses to help you deliver OxfordAQA International AS and A-level English Language
- Approved textbooks and resources published by Oxford University Press
We have too many International AS and A-level English Language resources to list here, so please visit our resource area for teachers to see them all, including:
- Schemes of work to allow you to plan how to deliver the specification in a way that will best suit you and your students
- Teaching guidance to outline clearly the scope of teaching and learning
- Topic tests and mock exam analysers to allow you to track your students’ progress throughout the teaching year
Take a look at:
- Example specimen paper and mark scheme
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