As you get ready for the exam season this summer, it's a good idea to read lots of opinion pieces to soak up the features of the genre: the style, structure, sub-editorial choices and the ways that arguments are constructed, among them.
It probably helps too to focus most of that reading and preparation on opinion pieces about language, because that's the course you're studying and what you're going to be writing about. So, here are a few suggestions for recent pieces about language that you might find useful.
It's worth bearing in mind that in your exam, AO5 is worth 10 marks and AO2 20 marks, so you probably want to err on the side of caution with the language content and maybe offer a little bit more knowledge about language and ideas from language study than a few of these, while also making sure that every bit of language knowledge and research that you introduce is made accessible to your target readers.
London Evening Standard piece on MLE
Indy Voices on regional accent pride
A Nov 22 piece on the language round migration
An older (2015) Guardian piece on the language associated with migration
Next time round, I'll suggest a few recent pieces that could be useful for a bit of analysis for Question 3 on Paper 2.
