International GCSEs English as a Second Language (ESL) (2023)
Specification
Teaching from: 2024
Assessment from: 2025
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE in English as a Second Language (4XES2) is designed to measure achievement against the benchmarks of Levels A2 – B2 of the CEFR. Topics, contexts, and settings relate to the interests of learners using English as a second language for the purposes of communication in study, work, leisure, and issues of global/cultural relevance.
It is a unitised qualification where individual unit assessments may be taken over a course of one or more examination series, or all unit assessments may be taken together at the end of the course of study in a single examination series.
It is available to centres outside of the UK as well as to independent schools within the UK.
Rebecca Waker
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