EngLangBlog

The latest guest blog comes from David Chew, a teacher in the East Midlands. Here he looks at how he approaches the NEA language investigation from its earliest ideas and inception through to the...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/04/putting-f-in-nea-making-language.html

This is an activity I've been using for revision of Question 3 on Paper 1. The texts are all ones I've used before and some might be recognisable from courses and/or resources I've presented befo...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/04/quickfire-comparisons-paper-1-question-3.html

And the guest blogs keep coming...  This one is another from Neil Hutchinson, who teaches at Kirkbie Kendal School in the Lake District (on Twitter as @Hutchinsonnet ) and here he looks at the...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/04/many-ways-to-climb-mountain.html

Back in the mists of time, I started this blog for my students at St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College in south London (hence why it's still got SFX in its URL) to support what we were doing in c...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/04/teacher-blogs-quick-list.html

If you're a teacher and you've exhausted all the previous papers from AQA and are yourself just a bit exhausted after the... stuff... that's been happening over the last year, I thought I'd try t...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/04/rules-regulations-paper-1-exam-style.html

This guest blog is by Anna Browning (on Twitter as @wordphile ) who is a teacher in the East Midlands. She says, 'I've been teaching for over 25 years and have learned so much from colleague...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/04/paper-2-question-3-slaying-beast.html

In this new guest blog, Donal Hale takes a look at how he and his students deal with both the content and linguistic register needed for good 'Evaluate the idea...' answers in Paper 2 Section A. ...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/03/paper-2-section-marrying-ao1-and-ao2-in.html

In this second guest blog of the week, Mr McVeigh takes a look at how he approaches Paper 1 Questions 1 & 2 with his students.  As a Linguistics graduate, I loved the part of my studies where...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/03/finding-meaning-in-meaning-and.html

This is the first of a few guest blogs coming up this week, so thank you to all those teachers and linguists who have contributed their ideas and time. This one is by Neil Hutchinson, a teacher a...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/03/paper-one-section-trying-something-else.html

Just as a quick follow-up to the post on MLE discourses, you might find some of the following discussions helpful for the wider AO2 part of Section B Question 4. This is where you'd use ideas fro...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/03/more-on-mle-mube-and-mbe.html

 We’ve been doing some work recently on possible Section B questions around Multicultural London English and attitudes to changing youth language and it’s a really productive area to focus o...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/03/discourses-around-mle-and-youth-language.html

While I'm on a roll, here's another pair of Section B questions based on some different texts. This time, the focus is on the changing meanings of punctuation and attitudes towards change. Like a...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/03/analysing-language-change-discourses.html

This post follows on from this one where I set a Paper 2 Section B pair of questions based on the two texts here . My current Year 13 students did the Question 3 as a homework task and have given...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/03/responding-to-accent-attitudes.html

 We’ve been doing some work on Paper 2 Questions 3&4 recently as we wait (and wait) to see what Ofqual and the exam boards tell us about how centre assessed grades will be worked out this year...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/03/analysing-accent-attitudes-for.html

Everyone has got an opinion about accents and that’s OK, but when those opinions and personal preferences start to influence how people are treated and made to feel, that becomes more of a prob...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/01/popular-discourses-around-accents.html

This is a guest post from Jon Palmer who is an English teacher and language geek based in Oxfordshire. Thanks a lot to Jon for writing this. Having read a recent post on EngLangBlog, which di...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2020/12/thinking-big-planning-and-structuring.html

Following on from the last post on essay writing for Paper 2, I thought I’d have a look in a bit more detail at the idea of ‘guiding the reader’ and what this means for essay planning, cons...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2020/11/guiding-reader-essays-for-paper-2.html

Recent appeals for help and discussions on Twitter have prompted me to think a bit more about Paper 2 Section A essays and how they can be approached, so I’ve put together a few thoughts here. ...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2020/11/planning-and-writing-paper-2-essays.html

Here's a thread I did on Twitter about how you might want to use the Lexis podcast to help with your NEA Language Investigations. It's that time of year again when students are starting to wor...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2020/09/using-lexis-podcast-to-inspire-language.html

One of the key messages from the feedback on Language Change and Diversity on Paper 2 over the last few years has been that students who understand the interconnected nature of the language topic...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2020/08/intersections-and-explorations.html

With the new academic year starting, I thought it might be a good idea to post a few short blogs. Today, I've been thinking about work and the Paper 2 Language and Occupation topic*.  The lock...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2020/08/wfh.html

This is a guest blog by Richard Young, an A level student at St Thomas More RC Academy in Tyne and Wear, who's hoping to go on to study English Language/Linguistics at degree level. As David Cry...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2020/04/embracing-independent-study-at-home.html

If you are still working on your NEA original writing commentary, or just polishing it up for submission, here are a few bits of advice. We covered the NEA commentary a while ago here on the blo...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2020/03/nea-support-genre-and-original-writing.html

Other A Level English Language teachers have been really generous with their help at this weird and unsettling time, so thanks to Jacky Glancey at Macmillan Academy for sharing her revision mater...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2020/03/paper-2-section-b-resources.html

As promised, here is (what I hope will be) some helpful material if you are still working on the NEA. We don’t yet know if the ‘calculated grade’ that Year 13s will receive, in lieu of the ...

http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2020/03/nea-support-language-investigations.html