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AQA A ENGA3 & ENGA4 Language Change within Language Explorations Guide »
Categories: Courses, A Level, AQA A Level, AQA A Level English Language A, ENGA3, ENGA4, Hot Entries, Language Change, An Introduction to Language Change, Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, Theory, Linguistic Theory, Writing, Analytical Writing, Linguistic Analysis
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...[ read full article ] »Analysing Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre »
Categories: Courses, A Level, GCSE, Hot Entries, Prose, Jane Eyre, Writing, Analytical Writing, Prose Analysis
Binary Opposition
The way a text creates and shapes its reader’s interpretation to develop both meaning and feeling can be fruitfully and subtly analysed by means of binary opposition. Despite its apparent complexity, this method can easily be understood by students of varying levels and ability from GCSE upwards. It can allow them to create subtle analyses of texts of the kind that can fulfil the requirements of the highest grade bands.
The theory works from the premise that many words and phrases have, as Steve Campsall terms it, their...
[ read full article ] »Developing Writing Skills: Essays and Analytical Writing »
Categories: Hot Entries, Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas & Skills Development, Writing, Analytical Writing, Essays
This is arguably the key skill in English A Level specifications, and it’s often one that is difficult to develop. Students, after having been successful enough in their GCSEs to progress to AS Level, often feel they know how to write essays and are offended when bad habits are pointed out or corrected, especially when these are bad habits which derive from ‘frames’ used at GCSE level.
It can be helpful to approach essay development with an insistence on the academic nature of A Level writing, to emphasise how advanced it is in...
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