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It’s NEA Time! Investigation Basics

Emily Prentice | Monday November 11, 2019

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It’s NEA Time! Investigation Basics

Thinking about getting your year 13s started on Investigations? If so, don’t worry – we’ve got you covered. There’s a great guide here on Edusites, written with the AQA specification’s NEA in mind, but it should help you out too if you’re an Eduqas or OCR English Language teacher. The guide has been tweaked to make sure it fits the requirements of the current specification and has an example of a nice approachable music-themed project that you could easily show to a class and work through with them, to help them get their heads around what an investigation is. That’s usually the first sticking point – they don’t know what we mean by an investigation, and if it’s your first time through with Language, you may not be too sure yourself!

Helping students feel more confident with the whole concept of an investigation and what to do is especially important now that the word counts are so tight – it’s crucial that students have some idea how to zoom in on what’s interesting about a set of data, and not just dither about with features they happen to be able to label. They won’t know what topic to do – but hold on, we can help you with that too! If you can get the ‘what IS it?’ out of the way first, you can deal with ‘but what can I do it on?’ later.

A Level English Language? It’s NEA Time!

The guide also talks you through some early practice tasks, that it suggests you do in year 12, but if you’re just starting this with year 13 now (as many of us will be – or even planning to do so once a bit of Child Lang’s been covered later in the term), don’t panic! Those early practice activities would also make a brilliant refresher of Paper 1 text analysis/comparison skills, which are well worth year 13 picking up now as some general revision of language skills (what’s…


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