pieispi Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Hi guys I'm deciding on my subjects for next year right now and one thing that is really troubling me is the English that I want to do.Well technically, I don't want to do English (I'm pretty bad at it) so I decided to take Language and Literature which people said was much easier. However, today a DP English teacher came in and talked about L&L saying that it was a lot of work and that it might possibly interfere with the HL subjects that I will do. From anyone who has experience, is L&L really a lot of work? Because I want to spend minimal time on the subject for my HLs and just because I hate it. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maks123456 Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Language and Literature is basically:3 written tasks (a min of 800 words and an additional 300 word rationale)2 Further oral commentariesOne individual oral commentary (IOC)2 literary books on Standard Level which you're going to use for your paper 22 other plays/books that you're going to base your IOC on.It is a lot of work but it is not as much work as your teacher has said it to be. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pieispi Posted March 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Language and Literature is basically:3 written tasks (a min of 800 words and an additional 300 word rationale)2 Further oral commentariesOne individual oral commentary (IOC)2 literary books on Standard Level which you're going to use for your paper 22 other plays/books that you're going to base your IOC on.It is a lot of work but it is not as much work as your teacher has said it to be.So... it's definitely better than taking Literature right? I mean I'm planning on going on to something related to engineering (possible economics) so I don't really need an English anyways right? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maks123456 Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 I wouldn't think about it like that.The Literature course focuses a lot on reading literary works and analyzing them (put briefly). The Language and Literature course gives you an insight in both areas, allowing you to excel in the Language part if you're good there and in the Literature one if your strength lies in analyzing texts.So, choose whatever you think you would be able to score highest on. Also, choose that which you would find more interesting and which you think you have a better chance of performing well on. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maks123456 Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Oh, by the way the written tasks are each a 300 word rationale + a minimum of 800 word body. They will bother you a lot since it will feel like you are never really quite finished with them. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pieispi Posted March 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 .... Alright thanks for the advice. I guess I'll have to think a little more about it. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctrls Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Sandwich has an excellent post about the differences between L&L and Lit, which is worth reading,http://www.ibsurvival.com/topic/18405-a-literature-literature-and-language-an-explanation/In a nutshell, L&L is designed to be the easier of the two subjects, I would imagine the depth of analysis with literature wouldn't go into as much depth. I can't give a proper comparison since I don't really know what you would do in Lit, but I'm guessing L&L would be a better choice if you aren't particularly good with English.It's still a fairly time consuming subject (at least I find it is), though I would presume that's probably the same for lit. In particular there's quite a few assignments you can get, along with various pieces of homework. It doesn't make it necessarily difficult, but there's just a lot to do. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibstudent321 Posted March 24, 2014 Report Share Posted March 24, 2014 Statistically more people score 7's in lang & lit as opposed to lit, so im guessing its the easier option. I am not too keen on english either hence chose to take lang lit SL Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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