Objectives for IB Language A:
Content (receptive and productive)
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- understand and analyse the language, content, structure, meaning and significance of both familiar and previously unseen oral, written and visual texts
- understand and apply language A terminology in context
- analyse the effects of the author’s choices on an audience
- compose pieces that apply appropriate literary and/or non-literary features to serve the context and intention
- compare and contrast works, and connect themes across and within genres
- express an informed and independent response to literary and non-literary texts.
Organization
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- create work that employs organizational structures and language-specific conventions throughout a variety of text types
- organize ideas and arguments in a sustained, coherent and logical manner
- employ appropriate critical apparatus.
Style and language mechanics
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- use language to narrate, describe, analyse, explain, argue, persuade, inform, entertain and express feelings
- use language accurately
- use appropriate and varied register, vocabulary and idiom
- use correct grammar and syntax
- use appropriate and varied sentence structure
- use correct spelling (alphabetic languages) or writing (character languages).
