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Literature
The study of literature should pervade the English lessons course. The system of assessment is designed to allow teachers, lecturers and candidates the freedom to choose the literary texts that will in their view best encourage development and enrichment. The range of drama prose, poetry and film and TV drama open to candidates in the Literary Study Unit (including Textual Analysis) is intentionally wide. It is desirable that, over the English lessons course as a whole, candidates should come into contact with the main genres of literature, contemporary and earlier works, writings from other cultures in the English-speaking world and, where appropriate, works in translation. In addition, candidates should study at least one Scottish text (or in the case of poetry, a group of short texts).
 
Linguistic and literary awareness
In order to engage adequately in the activities listed above, candidates should refine and extend their understanding of, and capacity to use, some of the more important features of language, structure and style.
Candidates should be familiar with:
¨ the more important ways in which language varies according to user and use (for example, register, Scots language forms, regional and other dialects, standard and non-standard forms and multi-cultural varieties)
¨ the distinction between connotative and denotative uses of language
¨ the ways in which, over time, language changes in vocabulary, pronunciation and structure
¨ the names and uses of the main word classes — noun, pronoun, adjective, article, verb, adverb, preposition and conjunction
¨ the names and uses of the basic syntactic Units — sentence, clause, phrase/group
¨ the more commonly used conventions of written language.

Candidates should also possess:
¨ a critical terminology for discussing prose, poetry and drama with regard to genres and conventions and to the more commonly used rhetorical and poetic devices and metrical patterns
¨ a critical terminology for discussing film and TV drama and other products of the mass media
¨ an understanding of what facilitates/prevents effective communication.

Work on linguistic and literary awareness will normally be undertaken in the context of English lessons course activities. From time to time, however, some direct study and teaching of these concepts may still be called for. The important point is that candidates should be able to apply this knowledge in their own use of language and in understanding and responding to the language of others.

The Performance Criteria indicate the ways in which at Grade C and above candidates are expected to utilise their knowledge and understanding of linguistic and literary concepts. Knowledge about language will not be separately assessed.

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