AQA A LEVEL ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
What You
NON-EXAM ASSESSMENT Need to
Know and
(NEA Coursework) What You
Need to
Students Handbook Do
, The NEA
For completion of your A Level English Language qualification, you will submit a
piece of coursework. This is known as the NEA (Non-Exam Assessment) and it
accounts for 20% of your overall mark.
We will work on this on timetable, but much of this work will fall to you. This
resource tells you exactly what is expected. It is important that you read
and understand it so that you can access the higher mark bands.
What does the NEA consist of?
It will contain two different components:
A language investigation (2000 words, excluding data)
A piece of original writing and a commentary (750 words each)
How many marks are awarded for the NEA?
The language investigation is marked out of 50 and the original
writing/commentary are also out of 50 (25 marks for each).
The Investigation
The investigation is marked using the following Assessment Objectives:
AO1: 15 marks
AO2: 15 marks
AO3: 20 marks
What do the different AOs look for?
AO1 is looking at what students do: their application of appropriate language
methods, analysis and written expression.
AO2 is what students understand about language, including others’ ideas and
research, along with an understanding of how to conduct a linguistic
investigation.
AO3 is what students interpret and understand about the language being
studied: in other words, the significance of the language in the data, its
meanings and contexts.
As you can see from above, AO3 is weighted slightly more heavily than the other
AOs, so it would be a good idea to really pinpoint the different contextual factors
of language production and reception. AO3 is also linked to the creation of
meaning, so it’s a good idea to consider possible language effects as well as
clearly identifying those features.
LANGUAGE
What You
NON-EXAM ASSESSMENT Need to
Know and
(NEA Coursework) What You
Need to
Students Handbook Do
, The NEA
For completion of your A Level English Language qualification, you will submit a
piece of coursework. This is known as the NEA (Non-Exam Assessment) and it
accounts for 20% of your overall mark.
We will work on this on timetable, but much of this work will fall to you. This
resource tells you exactly what is expected. It is important that you read
and understand it so that you can access the higher mark bands.
What does the NEA consist of?
It will contain two different components:
A language investigation (2000 words, excluding data)
A piece of original writing and a commentary (750 words each)
How many marks are awarded for the NEA?
The language investigation is marked out of 50 and the original
writing/commentary are also out of 50 (25 marks for each).
The Investigation
The investigation is marked using the following Assessment Objectives:
AO1: 15 marks
AO2: 15 marks
AO3: 20 marks
What do the different AOs look for?
AO1 is looking at what students do: their application of appropriate language
methods, analysis and written expression.
AO2 is what students understand about language, including others’ ideas and
research, along with an understanding of how to conduct a linguistic
investigation.
AO3 is what students interpret and understand about the language being
studied: in other words, the significance of the language in the data, its
meanings and contexts.
As you can see from above, AO3 is weighted slightly more heavily than the other
AOs, so it would be a good idea to really pinpoint the different contextual factors
of language production and reception. AO3 is also linked to the creation of
meaning, so it’s a good idea to consider possible language effects as well as
clearly identifying those features.
