Language A: Language and Literature · How the course works

FRAME — Areas, concepts and texts

Language A: Language and Literature · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes

1. LAL_AB_3

   The three areas of exploration

   Readers, writers and texts; Time and space; Intertextuality: an overview of the frame that organises the course and how the areas overlap, across literary and non-literary texts.

2. LAL_AB_4

   The seven concepts

   Identity, culture, creativity, communication, perspective, transformation and representation: what they are for and how they thread through every text studied.

3. LAL_AB_5

   Choosing works and bodies of work

   How texts are chosen: SL studies four literary works, HL six, plus an equivalent amount of non-literary texts organised as bodies of work (a full-length non-literary text, or shorter texts of one type and author), balanced across text types, and the learner portfolio as the through-line.