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Your Regional Development Manager will be able to support you with this.  \nWe hope that you find this document helpful, if you have any questions please email: [internationalqualifications@pearson.com](internationalqualifications@pearson.com) and we will be happy to answer these.  \n1 Language:  \nUnit Context and Identity (IAS)  \nExternally assessed  \nAvailability:  \nJanuary and June  \nFirst assessment:  \nJune 2016  \nOverview of content Overview of assessment  \nStudents will explore:  \n Length: 1 hour 30mins  \n• The range of contexts in which language is produced and received  \n• How the contexts of production and reception affect language choices  \n• How writers/speakers present themselves to their audience in a variety of modes  \n• How writers/speakers choose language to reflect and construct their identity or identities  \n• How writers create texts for different forms, purpose, audiences, and contexts.  \nTexts used for analysis will be selected from 20th and 21st-century sources. In Section A the sources will not include transcripts.  \nSection A Context and Identity:  \nStudents answer one question on two unseen extracts selected from 20th and 21st-century sources. Students produce an extended comparative response showing how the presentation of identity is shaped by contextual factors in both unseen texts.  \nSection B The Creation of Voice:  \nStudents produce one text transformation response to one of the unseen texts in Section A. They will adapt the content of the unseen text into a new form, and for a new audience and purpose.  \nStudents answer two questions, one question from Section A and one question from Section B.  \n2  \nUnit Language in Transition (IAS)  \nExternally assessed  \nAvailability:  \nJanuary and June  \nFirst assessment:  \nJune 2016  \n\n| Overview of content |\n| --- |\n| Students will explore the ways in which languages change, with a focus on English in a global context. 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