IGCSE English Home Study Course

We have chosen this syllabus as it is the most suited to Home Education. The Edexcel IGCSE English Specification A encourages students to improve their language skills and appreciation of literature.

The emphasis is on language skills, and students will learn to understand and respond to what they read and experience. Students are encouraged to use relevant vocabulary, correct grammar, spelling and punctuation, and to demonstrate a sense of style and an awareness of audience. 

Through reading, students will learn to understand and collate meanings, summarize, paraphrase, and understand how writers achieve effects. 

Through writing students will learn to articulate their own experience; express thought, feelings and imagined ideas clearly; order and present facts, ideas and opinions; understand and use vocabulary and register appropriate to audience and context; use grammatical structures, paragraphs, sentences, punctuation and spelling accurately and effectively.
 
The syllabus also promotes students' personal development, and helps them explore wider areas of human concern.

The Home Study Course

This course is suitable for students who

• aim to continue their studies at a higher level (including AS or A Level)
• need an English language qualification to complement other subjects they are studying
• need a final qualification in English language

Each lesson of the English IGCSE course begins with a set of clearly stated aims and an explanation of its place in the overall programme of study. Effective learning is encouraged through frequent activities and self-assessment questions, and there is guidance for the preparation of the Anthology to be used in the exam.

The English IGCSE course is divided into modules as follows:

Part 1: Language Skills

• Personal Experience
• Poetry and Prose
• Essay Technique
• Reading and Response  

Part 2: Anthology Texts

Syllabus

Oxford Home Schooling's English IGCSE course is designed to prepare students for the Edexcel IGCSE in English Language (Specification A ) for first examination in June 2011. There is no coursework. 

Assessment

Assessment is by two written examinations. Paper 1 lasts 2 hours 15 minutes, and Paper 2 lasts 1 hour 30 minutes.