A2 English Language Investigation Coursework

Hi i am also struggling sooooo much i am doing as and a2 in one year so do not have full knowledge and experience.
I am investigating how jeremy kyle uses politeness and face threatening acts and how he manipulates the audiences reaction.
I am really stuck on what to write...i have done the introduction...i attempted the aims...i have written the data description..attempted the metbodology but just rambles on about primary and secondary data...and now stuck...
Any tips would be appreciated?
And i am also stuck to which framework this falls under...i have said interaction???
Any clues???

Hi I'm really having problems deciding what to do. I was going to look at the similarities and differences of politician's speeches before sending the country to war but I'm not sure whether that meets the specification "collect original data". Does this mean that we either need to record or transcribe spoken English?

I've got the investigation bit down, I think (I'm studying how different teachers of different subjects use power effectively in a year 13 classroom and how the students react to this). I'm having really big issues with the media text that goes with. How am I supposed to link this to something in the real world? Any ideas?

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Hi,

We were told that we had to include:

- Introduction-
-say why you were interested in this topic area
- how you gathered your data
- Any limitations of your study (e.g. only two children- not representative, transcripts not reliable, etc)
- Any background research. Look at studies about children's speech. David Crystal's book may be useful, else you could google it and see what you come up with. Ideally make this specific to WHAT you are investigating. You should try to refer to these studies through your investigation as you analyse your data.
- How do you intend you analyse your data? We split our work into four sub-questions. E.G. One on gramma, lexis, etc. An example may be: how does the lexis of these two children differ?-if you were looking into the differences? My study was on the gender differences in two children's language, which was very interesting. I really enjoyed it- I hope you can too. :-)

-Do each sub question seperately. Analyse it how you like. Use graphs, tables, even mind maps. Try to answer the question really. Make comparisons, explore similarities... perhaps suggests reasons for these (using your research if you can). This is the main body of your study.

- Conclusion.
-What did you find out?
-Were there any problems/ difficultues and how did you overcome these?
- What are limitations? What would you do differently? How could you expand your research?

I hope this helps. It may not be all you need to include but I hope it's a start. Feel free to PM me if you get stuck. good luck! xxx

Why not narrow down the E2L one to focus on speakers of a specific language. I've seen some excellent projects like that. One of my students did a project on Cristiano Ronaldo (spit) and his changing English across three years of interviews. Another did one on her parents' and aunts' use of Jamaican patois.

If you narrow it down to a couple of frameworks and can get access to decent data they're good projects. Change is a massive topic, so pin it down to something very precise.