As you might have noticed, I haven't posted much since last year but I'm hoping to add some more articles in the next few weeks. In the meantime, the EngLangBlog twitter feed is worth following.
Here are a few things that have appeared in the last week or two:
A new study on how young people manage to text and write formally. It's almost like young people aren't completely stoopid.
- useful for ENGA3/ENGB3 Language Change and Language Discourses (and ENGB1 Technology for B spec people)
Why because isn't (always) a conjunction
- useful for ENGA3/ENGB3 Language Change
Lynne Truss loses the plot and maybe going insane over compound words.
- useful for ENGA3/ENGB3 Language Change and Language Discourses
Dialect words from around the north of England
- useful for ENGA3 Language Variation
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As part of the Original Writing section of the NEA, students will be required to produce a commentary on their piece. This blog post will pr... -
As lots of students are embarking on the Language Investigation part of the Non-Exam Assessment, I thought it might be handy to pick up a fe...
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I'm on a roll. Nothing from me for ages, then three posts come along! This is a lovely story from the Kenya Times about a dialect called...