Child Language Acquisition Revision

Child Language Acquisition Revision

It is time to do some serious revision, Year 13! Your mock examination is on Wednesday 14th December (am).

Here are some resources to help you to get ready.

Revision Packs/ Knowledge Organisers:

• A revision pack for spoken language acquisition
• A revision pack for literacy acquisition
• A knowledge organiser for literacy acquisition (reading)

Spoken Language Acquisition Do This Now Sheets from Lessons:

• Do This Now 1 (utterances, stages and viewpoints)
• Do This Now 2 (overgeneralisations and viewpoints)
• Do This Now 3 (Child Directed Speech and viewpoints)
• Do This Now 4 (Studies and theorists)
• Do This Now 5 (Child Directed Speech and Imaginative Play)

Literacy Acquisition Do This Now Sheets from Lessons:

• Do This Now 1

Quizlets:

Quizlet on literacy acquisition
Quizlet on spoken acquisition key terms
Quizlet on spoken acquisition theorists.

Obviously, you should all be using your AQA text books. Chapter 4 has all you need for literacy and spoken language acquisition.

Enjoy :)

Year 13 English Language NEA: Original Writing

Looking for a Style Model?

Year 13 Language NEA: Original Writing

Use the links below to explore potential style models:

Style models for opinion articles:

- The Guardian's Mind Your Language
- The Guardian's Comment is Free
- Oliver Kamm's The Pedant - you'll need to subscribe to The Times to access this column
- Daily Mail columnists Jan Moir, Piers Morgan, and Katie Hopkins

Style models for opinion blogs:

- Deborah Cameron's Language: A Feminist's Guide


Style models for persuasive speeches:

- Emma Watson's He for She United Nations Speech - also available to watch here

Style models for informative guides:

- BBC Magazine Online

Also useful...

• If your memory needs a nudge, the introductory PPT for the Original Writing part of the NEA is here.7

• The proposal form is here.

• The mark scheme for the Original Writing part of the NEA is here. You will need to go to page 27.

• You should aim to write about a specific language topic - ideally one which you are passionate about. The NEA is a brilliant opportunity to consolidate, and expand on, your existing knowledge of an aspect of your A Level Language course. This will be excellent preparation for your Paper One and Paper Two examinations.

• Remember, you can't use the same topic as your style model. So, for instance, if you chose a Deborah Cameron blog post about language and gender, you would need to select a different language topic. You could, however, pick a style model and then argue the opposite side of the argument to your style model.

• When looking for a style model, bear in mind the different audiences being targeted. For example, Oliver Kamm's The Pedant will be for a more specialist audience than a Jan Moir opinion piece for the Daily Mail and so there will be differences in register and style.

• You have been given lots and lots of articles and blog posts on Language and Gender and Language Change. Do look through these resources as they are style model gold mines!

Men and Women Communicate Differently Next Steps

Evaluate the idea that men and women communicate differently

Next Steps:

1. Open a word document and title it 'Language and Gender Assessment Two Next Steps: Acting on Feedback and Improving my Evaluative essay writing'.

2. Open, copy and paste the two A grade exemplars into this document.

3. Read both exemplars and the feedback for exemplar one.

4. For each exemplar, highlight WWW in green and EBI in orange.

5. Use the comments function in Microsoft Word to explain your highlighting of WWW / EBI.

6. Go back to your essay, or one of the extracts we discussed last lesson, and re write at least two paragraphs in this word document.

7. Use the comments function to annotate your paragraphs so you can show what you have done to improve.

8. Print off this document and file in your English Language folder.

EXT: If you have time, challenge yourself to a game of Gravity on this Quizlet set.

HOMEWORK: complete tasks 1 - 9