The focus of the Language A: language and literature course is directed towards developing and understanding the constructed nature of meanings generated by language and the function of context in this process.
IB Language A: Language and Literature redefines the term “text” to aid students in exploring the rhetoric of the world around them. During the exploration of such non-traditional “texts”, as well as challenging, college-level literature, students are required to analyze the language of the text for the significance of context, purpose, and audience. Additionally, this expanded scope of textual analysis challenges students to analyze the nature and foundations of their own beliefs and mores. Students are then required to express these new understandings of self, texts, and the world in various writing and speaking tasks. Year Two is literature-based and incorporates literary criticism, close critical analysis, and oral commentary into literary investigations.
Regardless of SL or HL, Year One focuses predominantly on the study of language & rhetoric in the world around us, and Year Two focuses predominantly on the analysis of language and intent in college-level literature.

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