1. Introduction to ENGA1 Revision Guide
2. ENGA1 Answering the Mode Question
3. ENGA1 Mode Question June 2012
4. ENGA1 Mode Question June 2012 Exemplar Response
5. ENGA1 Mode Analysis Assessment Reminders
6. ENGA1 Answering the CLA Question
7. ENGA1 CLA Question June 2012
8. ENGA1 CLA Question June 2012 Exemplar Response

This pack is to be used in conjunction with the ENGA1 paper set in June 2012, currently available on e-aqa under ‘secure key materials’. It will support exam preparation and practice in a structured and scaffolded way.

Although...

Guide Navigation

• A Level English Language Starters: Frameworks & Analysis
• A Level English Language Starters: Accent & Dialect
• A Level English Language Starters: Language & Gender
• A Level English Language Starters: Language Change
• A Level English Language Starters: Mode & Technology
• A Level English Language Starters: Child Language Acquisition
• A Level English Language Starters: Language & Power

This collection of suggestions includes ice-breaker or ‘getting to know you’ ideas which are especially suitable for a new class and some...

Associated Resources

• Transcripts Pack
• Guide to Conversation Analysis.doc

This guide is intended to support teachers preparing students for tasks involving the analysis of transcribed conversation at AS and A2 level, although teachers of the new GCSE unit on Spoken Language may also find some helpful information here, especially in the “Key Issues” section.  Just don’t get carried away with the technical terms or theories at this level!

The advice and information given here is relevant to many specifications, both Language courses and...

Associated Resources

• A Guide to Conversational Analysis

Introduction

This collection of transcripts has been produced with A Level Language and combined Language and Literature teaching in mind, although some of the transcripts may also be suitable for use with the new Spoken Language GCSE unit.

• Never Mind The Buzzcocks.doc
• David Beckham and Jonathan Ross.doc
• Paxman and Cooper on Taxes.doc
• Husband and Wife - Nan and her Fruit Pies.doc
• Student and Teacher.doc
• Jeremy Kyle.doc
• Hugh F-W - Beer Batter.doc
• Loose Women.doc
• QI Daniel Radcliffe.doc...[ read full article ] »
  

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Revision for ENGA1.doc
Assessment Objectives for English Language AS AQA A.doc
AQA AS Lang Lit Scheme of Work.doc
AQA AS Lang A Scheme of Work Beth Kemp.doc

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ENGA1 Mode Task 1.doc
ENGA1 Mode Task 2.doc

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ENGA1 Child Lang Essays - Last Min Revision.doc
Child Lang Revision Groupwork.doc
Eng Lang Child Language Revision Pack.doc
Prompts for Child Language Data Analysis.doc

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Eng Lang Variation Research Task.doc

This guide is for teaching ENGA1, the examined unit for the AQA ‘A’ English Language AS specification.

As its title implies, the unit encourages students to look at language differently – far more analytically – than they will have done for their GCSE English work. The final two-hour exam paper tests students on two topics:

‘Language and Mode’

This is a single compulsory question based on two linked unseen texts of different ‘modes’.

‘Language Development’

This asks students to choose between two questions, one based...

Introduction

Child Language Acquisition is one of most enjoyable and apparently accessible topics for students of English Language A level. However, because of the enthusiasm and the apparent accessibility it becomes all too easy for study of this topic to remain fairly superficial, with identification of features not brought into a coherent, logical analysis related to the bigger picture, a characteristic which is the key to the higher grades.

Although different in their exact application, the various syllabuses have the same threads...