AQA A-level ENGLISH LANGUAGE BEST RATING APPROVED Paper 1 Language, the individual and society FINAL MAY 2023

AQA A-level ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Language, the individual and society Thursday 25 May 2023 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes Materials For this paper you must have: • an AQA 12-page answer book • the Insert for Section A (enclosed). Instructions • Use black ink or black ball-point pen. • Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 7702/1. • There are two sections: – Section A: Textual variations and representations – Section B: Children’s language development. • Answer all questions from Section A. • Answer either Question 4 or Question 5 from Section B. • Do all rough work in your answer book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked. Information • The maximum mark for this paper is 100. • The marks for questions are shown in brackets. • There are 25 marks for Question 1, 25 marks for Question 2 and 20 marks for Question 3. There are 30 marks for either Question 4 or Question 5. • You will be marked on your ability to: – use good English – organise information clearly – use specialist vocabulary where appropriate. • A set of phonemic symbols can be found on the back of this paper, for reference. Advice • It is recommended that you use: – 30 minutes reading and preparing the texts – 30 minutes writing your Question 1 answer – 30 minutes writing your Question 2 answer – 20 minutes writing your Question 3 answer – 40 minutes writing your Section B answer. There are no questions printed on this page Section A Textual variations and representations Answer all questions from this section. Text A and Text B are on the Insert. Text A is an online article from BBC News, published in March 2019. Text B is a magazine article from The Bystander, published in April 1928. 0 1 Analyse how Text A uses language to create meanings and representations. [25 marks] Analyse how Text B uses language to create meanings and representations. [25 marks] Explore the similarities and differences in the ways that Text A and Text B use language. [20 marks] Turn over for Section B Turn over ► Section B Children’s language development Answer either Question 4 or Question 5 from this section. Either 0 4 ‘Children’s language development depends on their experiences of the world around them.’ Referring to Data Set 1 in detail, and to relevant ideas from language study, evaluate this view of children’s language development. [30 marks] Transcription key: (.) pause of less than a second (2.0) longer pause (number of seconds indicated) bold stressed syllables [italics] contextual information / / indicates a phonemic transcription CAPITALS indicates raised volume simultaneous speech A set of phonemic symbols can be found on the back of the Insert and also on the back of this paper, for reference. Data Set 1 Jo is 4 years old. She is sitting at the kitchen table with her mother, eating her breakfast. She has been given a dried fig to taste for the first time. Mother: what are you eating Jo (.) do you remember what they’re called Jo: Mummy close your eyes Mother: oh okay Jo: OPEN Mother: did you eat some (.) can you talk to me about it 5 Jo: they’re sweet Mother: sweet Jo: Mummy look [pointing at the figs on the table] (.) that one’s getting longer and that one’s getting smaller. Mother: oh very good 10 Jo: not really small ’cause I didn’t eat too much (1.0) Mummy can put your finger (.) can you put your finger in this (1.0) [puts fingertip and tip of thumb together to make a circle shape and lifts hand towards her mother’s face] put your finger in that Mother: inside Jo: yeah [Jo’s mother closes her thumb and fingertip around Jo’s thumb and fingertip so that they are like two connected hoops] 15 Mother: like a (.) like two rings Jo: and then pull (2.0) [Jo pulls her finger and thumb away from her mother’s to break the connected hoops] I winned Mother: yeah [laughs] you winned yeah (1.0) I won 20 Jo: I won (.) you won Mother: well done we both won (.) both winners Jo: is Daddy a winner Mother: yeah Daddy’s a winner Jo: and Nick 25 Mother: Nick’s a winner too Jo: what about Auntie Lynne Mother: yeah everyone’s a winner (.) everyone’s a winner Jo: what about babies Mother: yeah babies are winners (1.0) everyone’s a winner (.) you’ve just got to be kind and gentle and 30 Jo: what (.) what about (.) plants? Mother: that’s a different sort of thing isn’t it (.) plants aren’t sentient they don’t have (.) thoughts in the way that we have thoughts (1.0) plants aren’t human they’re plants Jo: why is 35 Mother: but I think all plants are winners (.) they’re keeping the (.) planet alive aren’t they Jo: Mummy (.) MUMMY Mother: yes Jo: why does bees collect honey from the flowers Mother: why do [laughs] say that again 40 Jo: why does bees collect honey from the flowers Mother: um that’s a good question um that’s what they do (.) bees they do it (1.0) they [laughs] I actually don’t know why they do it [laughs] Jo: that’s why they do it because they love it Mother: because they love it (.) that’s a good answer 45 Jo: and (.) when they (.) when bees die (.) they die Mother: yeah it’s not great when a bee dies (1.0) it’s not good for the planet (.) so we’ve got to protect the bees Jo: yep from monsters Mother: yeah the human monster (2.0) oh hi Nick (1.0) come and have some breakfast 50 Turn over for the next question