AQA A-level English Language Paper 1 - 21st May 2025 [Exam Chat]

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AQA A-Level English Language Paper 1: Language, the individual and society (2119139) - Wednesday 21st May 2025 [Exam Chat]
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Date/Time: Wednesday 21st May 2025 PM
Length: 2h 30m
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Reply 1

andmynameis

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How is everyone revising for Paper 1? Plus am I the only one who finds child written language easier??

Reply 2

tiyas

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Original post

by andmynameis

How is everyone revising for Paper 1? Plus am I the only one who finds child written language easier??

Mainly revising the CLA, remembering key debates and also theorists. The comparison I kind of merge with Paper 2 because it's slightly similar so it's not too different.

Reply 3

sapphireA

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Does someone know if I need to revise occupation theories or gender theories and accent/dialect?? I was hoping to just revise language change and attitudes and then child language acquisition only

Reply 4

andmynameis

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I mean better to have an all round view on it. Aspects of language change and attitudes could be because of gender or occupation.

(edited 9 months ago)

Reply 5

Ihatephysics!

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i think you should probably revise both it'll help as the texts can be on any language issues for paper 2

Reply 6

Ihatephysics!

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Original post

by andmynameis

How is everyone revising for Paper 1? Plus am I the only one who finds child written language easier??

yeah i love child language im just not really sure how to revise section A other than just past papers

Reply 7

F.Aida

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Heyy what's everyone been doing to prepare for paper 1?

Reply 8

andmynameis

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Just going over word classes, types, sentence structures, etc. For CLA, I figured it's best to link all the theories and use the 5 main as a major factor (Vygotsky, Brunner, Skinner, Piaget and Chomsky)...hbu?

Reply 9

joeysavin

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Original post

by sapphireA

Does someone know if I need to revise occupation theories or gender theories and accent/dialect?? I was hoping to just revise language change and attitudes and then child language acquisition only

you only need the latter. the only theories in paper 1 is cla/literacy for the last question. the other questions are just analysing the language and comparing the two texts. theories for accent and dialect, gender, etc. are for paper 2

Reply 10

Sally13

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Original post

by joeysavin

you only need the latter. the only theories in paper 1 is cla/literacy for the last question. the other questions are just analysing the language and comparing the two texts. theories for accent and dialect, gender, etc. are for paper 2

But generally u could add like face theory etc just for AO1 but yeah the rest of theories like gender etc is for paper 2.

Reply 11

heidinorah1

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any predictions? i reckon the extracts will be about technology or ai or something more modern/current, and then the cla extract will be just nature vs nurture rephrased, maybe something about interaction?

Reply 12

Henry567

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by heidinorah1

any predictions? i reckon the extracts will be about technology or ai or something more modern/current, and then the cla extract will be just nature vs nurture rephrased, maybe something about interaction?

Yeah I’ve looked at all the past papers and every interaction question is just nature vs nature reworded. Hoping they maintain that pattern for tomorrows exam

Reply 13

andmynameis

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are you more familiar with the written or spoken aspects of CLA?

Reply 14

Henry567

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Original post

by andmynameis

are you more familiar with the written or spoken aspects of CLA?

Spoken I barely know written

Reply 15

andmynameis

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Nice! can never wrap my head around spoke. Wishing you the best for tomorrow :smile:

Reply 16

Henry567

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by andmynameis

Nice! can never wrap my head around spoke. Wishing you the best for tomorrow :smile:

Haha opposites then. You too! Hoping the articles kind

Reply 17

andmynameis

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by Madeleine07

Haha opposites then. You too! Hoping the articles kind

I really hope so too 😬

Reply 18

heidinorah1

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Original post

by andmynameis

are you more familiar with the written or spoken aspects of CLA?

we didn’t get taught written lol!! just spoken, hoping both cla questions are good though for people who know written

Reply 19

andmynameis

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If Text B is perhaps from the 1600-1700 what would you comment on specifically apart from orthography and grammar without linking it too much social contexts?

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