Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Media Texts and Language Interventions updated

A year or two ago, I put up a list of links to articles that might be used as style models or sources of inspiration for the A2 writing coursework part of the AQA A (Language Intervention) and AQA B (Media Text) specifications. This has been updated a few times, thanks to links that colleagues and blog/Twitter people have sent me, but I thought it was probably time to add a few more, so here goes.

If you are a teacher reading this, you might also find this useful for the new AQA English Language A level that starts being taught in September 2015, where Paper 2 has a writing task similar to the media text and intervention.

Again, I'd be delighted to add any others if you want to suggest them, either as comments on this blog post or as tweets via @EngLangBlog.

Opinion pieces


Isabelle Kerr on silly new words and why they shouldn't be in the dictionary








David Marsh on arguments about language and The Pedants' Revolt






Feature articles

Rebecca Holman on ‘Menglish’ (gender and language)


Girls are way ahead of the linguistic curve (gender and language innovation)



Black British English vs MLE

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