Standard Level Only

This course is designed to recognise the importance of supporting a student's study of literature in their mother tongue. This course recognises the student’s strengths in their strongest language, and provides them the opportunity of being awarded a bi-lingual IB diploma. 

Students are able to enhance and develop their enjoyment of literature in their first language through studying a wide range of texts. The students are supported by an English literature teacher to learn how to de-construct a text for meaning, purpose, respond to written and verbal prompts and evaluate texts. They then apply these skills to a range of short texts (poetry and short stories) through to extended texts (non-fiction, graphic novels, plays and novels) in their mother tongue. Students will select their own texts with the guidance of a tutor who speaks in their chosen language. They will keep a portfolio of their reflections, thoughts and written work over the two-year course.

The language specific contexts of the course are ‘self-taught’ through the support of a mother tongue tutor. The school supports students through allocating a literature teacher to help monitor student progress and teach the technical components of literature analysis that are common to all language literature A courses. The skills learnt in English Literature lessons will also be able to be applied to the mother tongue literature course. The assessments in both courses are the same.

NOTE: Selection of this course requires the support of an external company and tutor MIH E-ducational Services LTD. This incurs an extra cost, that will vary depending on the level of support and engagement students decide they would like from the tutor.

If this course is chosen, you may only take IB English Literature as your English option, not IB English Language and Literature

Instructions

Once you have selected a course from this group, please select three more International Baccalaureate courses.

International Baccalaureate courses