AQA - English Language B A2 - 3rd of June

Hey, I've just looked through all the Past Paper questions on the AQA website, and I'm just wondering.... has there ever been a questions dedicated to solely 'reading' development? I see speech appears pretty much every year, and writing too, but not specifically reading? Or is reading tied in with writing most of the time?

I've been told to look for a reading past paper question... help?!

Hey, I've just looked through all the Past Paper questions on the AQA website, and I'm just wondering.... has there ever been a questions dedicated to solely 'reading' development? I see speech appears pretty much every year, and writing too, but not specifically reading? Or is reading tied in with writing most of the time?

I've been told to look for a reading past paper question... help?!

Yeah, looks like they are mostly written. The only one that breaks the pattern is January 2013: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-ENGB3-QP-JAN13.PDF

Which is kind of both spoken and reading - but mainly spoken as the teacher is the main reader.

How odd

Yeah it's strange, the ones involving reading seem to be in the form of transcripts... Which is good because there's more to talk about, i.e. speech as well! I'll use the one you've suggested, thanks


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Hey There are two texts to chose from, the first is spoken and the second is reading or writing. I'm pretty sure I've seen a couple on reading. I'll have a look and get back to you

Here are some resources I have found, from looking at mark schemes, in order to get top marks you have to:

- be systematic in your approach, look at the text in the big picture. You won't get top band a01 if you just go through the whole thing analyzing with no structure.

- avoiding a deficit approach. Don't judge what stage the child is in, never ever say a child is advanced for its age or underdeveloped for its age, you will lose marks as examiners see you as judging the child. Same goes with language change.

- Embed your context into your answers. When you describe the context, do not describe it on its own, say how it affects the frameworks.


I found some exemplar exam marked scripts, but they are too large to upload here, if anyone wants them just pm me or something.

This is brilliant! are you sitting this exam too?

Yeah, I'm rooting for an easy spoken text since they are the easiest to analyse. Advertising/newspaper articles for language change seem favorable too, hopefully no dictionary or speeches.

To be honest, I'm not a big fan of this exam, there is a lot of regurgitation of key words and phrases.

Unlike gender, power & technology, I feel like child language acquisition has very little applicability in the real world unless you wish to go into that field.

mdfk

That was so helpful all of the above. You seem ready for the exam. Any more help like this on Acquisition and Change?

Be my revision buddy Sarah! We can Skype each other questions and test each other and have debates haha

Didn't realise this was to me as my name is Sara and I automatically ignore it with a 'h' on the end

But I don't have skype - email me though and we can test each other

Quick question - how would you apply Heath's findings from American communities (first page of reading section in textbook) to real data?


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