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English Language - H070
5 sections available · 22 chapters available
Free English Language - H070 revision notes for Cambridge OCR AS Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Language levels
Phonetics, phonology and prosodics
Lexis and semantics
Grammar, including morphology
Pragmatics
Discourse
Component 01 Section A: Understanding language features in context
Identifying and analysing features across the language levels
How and why particular features are used in the construction of a text
Contextual factors and their effect on language use
How texts and discourses are shaped and interpreted across genres
Component 01 Section B: Comparing and contrasting texts
Spoken and written texts: the effects of mode
Spontaneous and crafted speech
Applying theoretical concepts: gender and power
Exploring connections across different texts and discourses
Component 02 Section A: Writing about a topical language issue
Topical issues in language and gender and language and power
Writing for a real-world purpose, form and audience
Shaping writing to genre, mode and context
Critically evaluating attitudes towards language and its users
Component 02 Section B: Exploring language in context
Language and gender: how gender is represented and reproduced
Gender theories and issues applied to an unseen text
Language and power: how power is represented
Power theories and issues applied to an unseen text
Linguistic and graphological features of multi-modal texts
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