AQA • English

AQA AS ENGLISH LANGUAGE Paper 1 Language and the individual may 2024

10 x handwritten scanned mindmaps with all the theory and theorists to get in the higher bands / top marks

An in depth evaluative model answer example essay that explores whether men and women speak differently Includes all theory and theorists essential to reach top bands and highest AO marks! INCLUDES POINTS SUCH AS:  evaluate deficit/dominance/difference views, research and methodologies  challenge ideas of difference: gender polarisation and dichotomies, universalising, biologism, miscommunication  conceptualise diversity views: heterogeneity of women’s and men’s social ident...

An in depth evaluative model answer example essay that explores whether English is changing and breaking up Includes all theory and theorists essential to reach top bands and highest AO marks!

An in depth evaluative model answer example essay that explores whether Being creative is an essential part of learning to write Includes all theory and theorists essential to reach top bands and highest AO marks!

Includes theorists and theories necessary for the top band, in depth analysis of data set Answers the question: ‘Learning to write factually is the most important skill in literacy development.’ Referring to Data Set 2 and Data Set 3 in detail, and to relevant ideas from language study, evaluate this view of children’s language development. [30 marks] Data Set 2 and Data Set 3 were written in the same school by Hannah and Lucy, both aged seven.

Includes all the theorists and theory needed to reach the top bands! There are two key schools of thought in regard to whether reading should be broken up. Some linguists argue that children should learn phonics, phoneme-grapheme correspondence between individuals and groups of letters and how they sound, first so they can apply such rules to all words. However, some linguists argue that reading should definitely not be broken up and children should memorise the orthography of whole words.

Example answers of: Evaluate the idea that changes in communication technologies have had a damaging effect on the English language Text A and Text B are on the insert. Text A is an extract from an online article about attitudes to accents. It was published by the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail in 2013. Text B is an article about accents by a tutor. It is from the website which advertises private tutor services. The tutor teaches elocution, the skill of clear and expressive speech...

An in depth, well written entertaining style of writing which achieved full marks, includes key theorists such as Lowth, Johnson, Schneider

An in depth, well written model answer in which I compare two articles from the JUN 2022 paper 2 Text A and Text B are on the insert. Text A is an extract from an online article about standard English. It was published by the American Bar Association in 2020. In the article lawyer Bryan Garner gives his views on standard English. Text B is an extract from an online article about ‘correct’ English. It was published by Prospect Magazine in 2015. In the article two writers debate their op...