ENGB3 AQA 3rd June 2013

Has anybody only revised speech and not reading or writing?

Has anyone been going over notes from last year? I know this exam may be very synoptic.

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whats the difference between the reading and writing texts?

Ive primarily done speech with a bit of reading, am continueing to go back over reading now in case AQA want to catch us out. Have you not been taught reading? My teacher has assured me speech WILL come up, it is in every single past paper

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We have been, sort of - I didn't really pay any attention though because I'd decided I'd given up on trying to deal with anything to do with acquisition. Reading seems to be only to do with different phonics approaches and contextual things about the reading process - that's all I can seem to grasp from the powerpoints that my teachers have made. What else have you been taught about to do with it?

Our teacher told us there would always be a transcript, so I've only prepared for acquisition of speech! She's a bit all over the place though so I'm a little worried she could be wrong, I have no idea what I'd do as I haven't done anything on reading or writing and couldn't name a single theorist. Does anyone know the AO1/AO2/AO3 breakdown?

Don't worry about it - I only did 2 lessons on it. I have just finished going over it so I have a back up.
But like someone else pointed out further up on the thread this paper:
http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-ENGB3-W-DB-JAN11.PDF featured aspects of reading and speech; so a synoptic link would get the top marks I think.
Yeah to summarise some of my notes on reading:

Approaches to reading -
phonics
"look and say" (whole word approach)
psycholinguistics approach

Cues are "the strategies used to help decode written texts successfully"
Types of reading cues - Graphophonic, semantic, visual, syntactic, contextual and miscue



If you have the AQA endorsed book it is much more helpful..the CGP book only has one double spread and completely misses out the cues (which are one of the most important thing IMO of developing reading)
Was there anything you needed to know specifically you feel is missing from your notes/powerpoint?

Thanks for that, it's helpful. No, not particularly, I think that covers everything 'cause I don't think any question with a speech & reading focus is going to want a *huge* amount on reading and would look for more speech analysis. I remember making notes on that text with Jake and his parents and my teacher said what I'd got was pretty good and that was before I'd looked at reading, so I don't think your response would have to be too reading-heavy. If I'm wrong and they want loads then I'll sound very stupid.

I think most English teachers are all over the place (mine certainly is) lol!
To summarise the AO's (someone correct me if wrong)
A01 - Terminology
A02 - Concepts/theories
A03 - Context, context, context!

Hahah I'm worried about trusting what she's told us as she constantly mixed up linguists and their theories, is it 'Neilson' who said the majority of first words referred to family/social interaction etc? (I didn't know whether she misspelt Nelson or if it's another theorist!)

Ah thank you, don't suppose you know if the breakdown of marks is 8 - 16 - 24 or 8 - 24 -16?

ah thank you, don't suppose you know if the breakdown of marks is 8 - 16 - 24 or 8 - 24 -16?