Teacher Notes 1
ELLB3 – Question 1. Four-Fold Response
This is a tried and tested way of responding to any essay question for Question 1 of ELLB3. It is a simple model created to hit all assessment objectives and to structure pupils’ work every time. Despite the positive elements of this module, teachers often find it a challenge to help pupils hit all assessment objectives, both literary and non-literary within the one hour allowed and to facilitate the pupils’ understanding of the specific elements required to write a top essay. The Four- fold response helps all types of learners achieve in this module. It takes on both the literary and the non-literary approach necessary to achieve a top grade!
How to use it as a teaching tool.
- Explain to pupils how essential it is to look at this question with literary and non-literary frameworks in mind.
- Explain how every year examiners feel that pupils often succeed in applying one of the two frameworks and find it difficult to apply both.
- Their essay should be in four parts, horizontally and vertically. This means that there are four definite sections to the essay and four each point made within the essay, they need to be doing four things.
- You will see from the model that the four sections to the essay are; context, interactional features, lexico-grammatical features and phonology. ...
