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English Language (9670)
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Free English Language (9670) study notes for Oxford AQA International A-level students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.
Language and context
Understanding texts: context (Unit 1 Section A)
Audience: constructed and idealized readers
Purpose and multi-purpose texts
Genre, intertextuality and interdiscursivity
Mode: spoken, written and hybrid texts
Comparing two thematically linked texts
Language and society
Directed writing (Unit 1 Section B)
Writing to a specific brief
Transforming source material into a new text
Sustaining an appropriate style
Shaping voice for a target audience
Language variation
Language and social groups: texts (Unit 2 Section A)
Expressing identities
Relationships and group rapport
Power and status in interaction
Marking group membership
Language play and performance
Analysing spoken and multimodal data
Language exploration
Language and social groups: writing (Unit 2 Section B)
Building an academic argument
Using data as evidence
Evaluating claims about language and society
Essay structure and academic register
Learning language (Unit 3 Section A)
Early child language acquisition
Analysing child language data
Later language development in teenagers
English as an additional language (EAL) data
Spoken, written and multimodal learner texts
International English (Unit 3 Section B)
Established world English
English as a global lingua franca
Variation across global varieties
Debating issues in international English
Language exploration: investigating data (Unit 4)
Devising a research question
Selecting and handling data sets
Method and analytical categories
Presenting findings and conclusions
Report structure: aims, method, analysis, conclusion
Language frameworks and terminology
Phonetics and phonology
Lexis and semantics
Grammar: word, phrase, clause, sentence
Pragmatics
Discourse
Graphology
Writing forms and text types
News and magazine articles
Advertising and promotional material
Digital texts: blogs, forums and websites
Speeches and planned spoken language
Informative booklets, flyers and reference material
Other non-fiction writing
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