This certificate explores human communication by focusing on the English language, its history, diversity and flexibility. You’ll learn what distinguishes machine language from human language, and how people adapt and change their ways of communicating in multilingual and multicultural contexts. You’ll investigate how language works with other modes of communication and learn basic language description and analysis. You’ll also explore English as a creative medium to express humour, thoughts and emotions. It’s not, however, designed to teach English to speakers of other languages.

Key features of the course

• Explores the contemporary diversity of English in the UK and beyond.
• Introduces debates surrounding the historical and contemporary position of English in relation to other languages.
• Teaches strategies that promote critical evaluation of texts.
• Develops you as a competent communicator.
• Reveals how the English language works, and how the choice of words and grammar affect the message.

A nationally recognised qualification in its own right, this certificate of higher education is also equivalent to the first third of the BA (Honours) English Language.

Accessibility

We make all our qualifications as accessible as possible and have a comprehensive range of services to support all our students. The Certificate of Higher Education in the English Language uses a variety of study materials and may have the following elements:

• Studying a mixture of both printed and online material.
• Online learning resources may include websites, audio/video media clips, and interactive activities such as online quizzes.
• Working in a group with other students.
• Undertaking language analysis.
• Finding external/third party material online.