English Language or Lit?

[Immenseman]

A degree in psychology will have you working in McDonald's.

Lucky I'm not studying it at university then. Thanks for the constructive post. A genuine thanks to everyone else who helped me, I really am stuck and just have no idea. I think I'm leaning towards Literature at the moment but I'm yet to decide.

[JackBuddy]

Do the lit and lang combined course.

[Misawa]

At AS Literature, you study a novel and poetry.

At AS Language, you study the history and origins of the English language, and close study different elements such as idiolect; the psychology of the language. Meaningful psychology. The coursework is creative writing spanning from journalistic articles to moral fables.

[Immenseman]

I think I'm leaning towards English Literature, it all depends who the teacher is though. I enjoy the creative side of the Language course but I don't enjoy the other side, the more "language" side if you like. I find it dull and not really what I want. Literature is a lot more reading and analysis, which I enjoy a lot more anyway.

[Soka]

A degree in psychology will have you working in McDonald's.

LOL,

i'd choose english literature due to what you just said about prefering analysis
although does your not college not to the english lit/lang combined A level? this would be ideal as your having to choose

why you choosing because of teacher - don't do that lol

[Immenseman]

I am staying at the school I went to for 6th form and their English department is relatively weak I think. There are some class teachers and some crap ones that's why I need to wait. Yeah we do do the combined course that is something I will have to consider too.

[Holofoil]

Hmmm, which one would go better with History, Psychology and Sociology.

Depends what you want to go on and do... Literature shows you are able to analyse stuff well, which goes well with the other three, especially history. Language shows good communication and obviously language skills, which goes well with Psychology and Socio.

[Supersam]

I do Language and its brilliant. I did great for AS level.

However, my friend does both and she assures me that Lit is better... however her teacher is better in that so I cannot compare.

I would suggest LIT if:
-You like to read.... ALOT
-You can critique well (such as what you do in history)

LANG if:
-You are very creative
-You can take lots of information and use it to analyse texts

Lit would be very good alongside history because you actually do war literature as a module (if you do the AQA specification I think).


Oh and the first year of lang is all about the building blocks of language and text that comes under:
-Lexis
-Semantics
-Pragmatics
-Grammar
-Phonology
-Discourse
-Graphology

And using those "frameworks" you analyse texts for those features.

They are both good and it depends on what you want to continue on doing through uni (if you go) as to what you choose.

[benjamin]

lit lit lit!
english literature is much more interesting.

[Immenseman]

The grammar side of the Langauge course really puts me off. I think I will choose literature, I spoke to my Aunt who teaches English and she advised me to do Literature too.