- So, if you're looking for stuff on regional variation, try here.
- Accent material can be found here.
- For social variation - class and social groups, try here and here.
- For occupation and language, try here and here.
- And for gender and language, try here.
- And for Language Discourses and attitudes to variation try here and here (but be aware that language change, ethnicity and world Englishes are A-level only topics and don't appear in the AS level).
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Paper 2: accent, dialect, sociolect and occupational discourse
If you're looking for material on the topics for paper 2 of the new AQA English Language spec, there'll be some posts coming up after half-term. There's plenty on the blog already, though but it's labelled using the old specifications.
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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...