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English Language 7702
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Free English Language 7702 study notes for AQA A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Methods of language analysis: language levels
Phonetics, phonology and prosodics
Graphology
Lexis and semantics
Grammar, including morphology
Pragmatics
Discourse
Paper 1 Section A: Textual variations and representations
Language shaped by audience, purpose, genre and mode
Language shaped by context
Constructing meanings and representations
Enacting relationships between writers, speakers and audiences
How identity is constructed
How audiences are addressed and positioned
The functions, structure and organisation of texts
Texts from different times and places (global, national, regional)
Analysing a single text
Comparing two texts linked by topic or theme
Paper 1 Section B: Children's language development
The functions of children's language
Phonological development
Lexical and semantic development
Grammatical development
Pragmatic development
Children's spoken and written skills: genres and modes (0-11 years)
Theories and research about language development
Discursive essay on children's language development
Paper 2 Section A: Language diversity and change
Sociolects: social and occupational groups
Language and gender
Language and ethnicity
Regional and national dialects of English
International varieties of English
Language change from 1600 to the present day
Why language varies and changes: views and explanations
Attitudes to language variation and change
Using language data and research findings (dictionaries, corpora, tables, graphs, statistics)
Evaluative essay on language diversity or language change
Paper 2 Section B: Language discourses and writing skills
How texts represent language
How texts construct an identity for the producer
How texts position the reader and seek to influence them
How texts are connected to discourses about language
Analysing how texts present ideas, attitudes and opinions about language
Directed writing about language issues for a non-specialist audience
Writing discursively about language issues in an academic essay
Language in action: Language investigation (NEA)
Identifying an investigation topic and research questions
Methodology: data collection and approaches to analysis
Transcribing spoken data
Analysing findings and drawing conclusions
Presenting findings and referencing sources
Language in action: Original writing (NEA)
Analysing style models and genre conventions
The Power of Persuasion
The Power of Storytelling
The Power of Information
Planning, drafting and redrafting
The reflective commentary
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