AQA A2 English Language B 14th June 2016

Hi, I also have the exam tomorrow- just wondering how long do you guys spend planning before you start to write up your answers?

One of my teachers told me to only spend 15 minutes today and I don't think that will be enough time for me (I've done practice essays in the past but I've forgotten how long I used to spend on planning them which is bad I know).

Unless you want to take an extra 15 minutes from your writing, so you can have a total 30min annotating and planning on each question. If you're a quick writer, you should probably take more time planning and just write it in 45 minutes.

Any theorists that talk about Morphology for CLA?

So Bruner is a cognitive theorist and his major thing was the Language acquisition in social situations or the LASS for short.

Essentially, it shows that a childs cognitive and lexical development is tied to their social interactions with their care giver. So a care giver using lots of diexis in their language, lots of scaffolding will eventually encourage the child to copy and learn more complicated stuff.

LASS is pretty much linked to the idea of a critical period'. So for example, Gene the girl who was like left alone for god knows how many years did not have that social interaction and therefor could not learn *how to communicate*properly.

Bard and Sachs did a study linked to this one where they studied a kid who had deaf parents, and the kid only learned how to speak, his speech development was terribly inhibited even when exposed to TV and radio, proving LASS and showing physical human interaction is vital to lexical cognition.

Also thanks!

Tip to ace exam:

- Look at the marking criteria of the exam and make sure you cover as many as possible.

- Cram the night before but not til too late.

- Learn as much terminology as possible and use it, the more obscure the better, as long as you understand it and use it in context.

I am sorry but Bruner is an interactionist theorist

They don't exactly give us the marking scheme in the exam

Not enough time im screwed haha

Same, i should have applied for extra time at the beginning of the year be ive screwed up most of my exams bc of it.

I think my speech acquisition went really well. I talked about phonological errors (assimilation & consonant cluster reduction), labelling (aitchison & linked to hypernyms/hyponyms), missing auxiliary verbs and determiners, bellugi (prounouns & negatives), and CDS (questioning, modelling, soft phonics, use of children's names...)

Language change didn't go as well - I did Q4 as I thought Q3 was too modern to pick out many features. I hadn't really practiced comparative so I hope I balanced the texts enough. I talked about archaisms & modern terms (AKA), higher order lexis v less higher order for a wider audience, differences in register & discourse (formal/informal and 1st person/third person), grammar (long, complex sentences/short, simple sentences, differences in sentence formation), pragmatics (sexist language in 1st text, using 'actors' to refer to male & female actors, showing political correctness) and graphology (block of text v being split up, lack of features v italicisation, different punctuation ). & obviously I linked in contextual factors throughout

Still feel that language change didn't go too well, as I think I spent too much time on graphology & perhaps didn't link in context as much as I should, but I'm feeling confident-ish

It's over now, so I better get on to revising for the next exam