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English Language (8EN0)
4 sections available · 29 chapters available
Free English Language (8EN0) study notes for Pearson Edexcel AS Level students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Language frameworks and levels
Pragmatics: variation in meaning depending on context
Discourse: extended texts in their context
Graphology: the writing system and presentation of language
Phonetics, phonology and prosody
Morphology: the structure of words
Lexis and semantics
Syntax: relationships between words in sentences
Phonemic reference sheet and transcription mark key
Component 1 Section A: Language and Context
The contexts in which language is produced and received
How contexts of production and reception affect language choices
Mode, field, function and audience
Analysing thematically linked unseen data from 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century sources
Component 1 Section B: Language and Identity
How writers and speakers present themselves to their audience in different modes
Geographical factors and identity
Social factors: gender, age, ethnicity and other social identities
How language reflects and constructs identity
Analysing unseen 21st-century texts
Component 2: Child Language
The beginnings of speech
Acquisition and development of the sound system (phonetics)
How children understand the structure of words (morphology)
Development and extension of vocabulary (lexis) and meaning (semantics)
Stages of syntactic development and forming larger structures (syntax)
Conversation: child-directed speech and the development of interactive and pragmatic skills
The transition from speech to writing: drawing, gesture and early forms of writing
Letter forms, linearity, directionality and early spelling (graphology)
The effect of learnt reading strategies on spelling (morphology)
Vocabulary choices, sentence structures and narrative and descriptive skills in early writing
Theories of children's language development
Creative response: producing writing for different functions and audiences
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