Term One A2 English Language MIB Sept 2014
A2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE –OVERVIEW TERM ONE
Mrs Maule: mib@treviglas.cornwall.sch.uk
Name:
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AS Grade:
Reflection/Thoughts:
Aspiring to:
Need to:
Acquisition
Speech
History
Investigate
Term One A2 English Language MIB Sept 2014
Tues session 3
Thurs session 1
Thurs session 2
9/9/14: Intro to A2. The big questions –
Why and how does Language change?
Why do we need language?
11/9/14: Change –Changing
Contexts – ‘The History of
English in 10 minutes’ Wars.
Travel. Science. Trade. Society.
Create a timeline of our
Language
18/9/14: Change – Lexical
Change (lots of terminology!)
Where do new words come
from? Lots from Professor David
Crystal
11/9/14: Investigation – Staying
Focused + ICT time
25/9/14: Change – How written
texts have changed.
Orthographical change. The
Great Vowel Shift.
25/9/14: Investigation –
Analysis and exploration of data
+ ICT time
2/10/14: Change – Punctuation
Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Lynne
Truss
2/10/14 Investigation –
Analysis and exploration of data
+ ICT time
9/10/14: FORMAL
ASSESSMENT 1
9/10/14: FORMAL
ASSESSMENT 1
16/10/14: Change –
Grammatical change. William
Labov ,The Principles of
Linguistic Change
23/10/14: Change – change
and society. Gender. Sapir
Whorf Hypothesis
16/10/14: Investigation
Analysis and presentation of data
2 + ICT time. Diagrammatic forms
e.g Tabulating & Graphics
23/10/14: Investigations
ICT time in prep for half term work
(one day) on write up.
HALF TERM
6/11/14: Change – Society –
power. Politeness. Brown and
Levinson
HALF TERM
6/11/14: Investigations – Findings,
evaluations and referencing.
13/11/14: Change – SocietyTechnology. The Internet.
Mobile Technology. David
Crystal. The GR8 Deb8
13/11/14: Final session (in
college) on writing up
Investigation.
20/11/14: Change – Speech –
attitudes and prescriptivism vs
descriptivism.
20/11/14 Media Text
Drafting, Originality and
presentation. Features of
Newspapers, Editorials,
Webpages
16/9/14: Developing Language –
Speech: The stages of language
development (linguistic &
phonological) Noam Chomsky - LAD /
Berko Gleason and Brown – substitution
/ Nelson 1973 categorisation +
18/9/14: Investigation –
Methodology/Collecting Data
+ ICT time
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8127804.stm
23/9/14: Developing Language –
Speech –‘meaning’ Jean Piaget, Roger
Brown, Michael Halliday, John Dore, Lev
Vygotsky and Jean Aitcheson
We will look at how children learn from
their mistakes!
30/9/14: Developing Language –
Speech – The role of parents – Jerome
Bruner, Chomsky, BF Skinner –
Interaction and child directed speech.
The theories related to language and
relationships/context.
7/10/14: Developing Language –
Speech – Application of theories and
knowledge to data prior to formal
assessment. Self –assessment in
advance of past paper.
14/10/14: Developing Language –
Reading – Early reading, early books –
group investigation into typical features
of children’s books.
21/10/14: Developing Language –
Reading – Learning to read. How
Children are taught (lead- in to some
visits to the primary classroom)
HALF TERM
4/11/14: Language Acquisition Visit to
St Columb Minor Academy
National Curriculum for English Expectations
11/11/14: Language Acquisition Visit to
St Columb Minor Academy
Phonics? Reading Cues? The children
will read to you /with you as part of this
visit.
18/11/14: Developing Language –
Reading : The stages of Reading
development (Jeanne Chall)
Term One A2 English Language MIB Sept 2014
25/11/14: Review of Learning re.
Language Development. Individual
reflection / needs analysis. Formative
terminology ‘QUIZ’ to help with this.
2/12/14: Developing Language –
Writing – stages of development (Barry
Kroll, Joan Rothery, Britton)
25/11/14: Change –
Graphological features. Group
planning for visit to Records
Office.
4/12/14: LANGUAGE CHANGE
VISIT TO CORNWALL RECORDS
OFFICE, TRURO
25/11/14: Media Text
First Draft
9/12/14: Developing Language –
Writing- Spelling
11/12/14: Change: Review of
write-ups from Truro Visit.
Presentations / Debate
11/12/14: Media Text – interim
review and re-drafting
INVESTIGATION DEADLINE 8.1.15
16/12/14: Developing Language –
Writing – Punctuation and Grammar
Key document: Revised National
Curriculum for English KS1 & 2
18/12/14
TBC
18/12/14
TBC
4/12/14: LANGUAGE CHANGE
VISIT TO CORNWALL RECORDS
OFFICE, TRURO
Bring your file with you to every session – there will be lots of handouts and notes. So, get
organised and file them there and then to make your revision a whole lot easier!
Try to brush up on terminology mentioned before the session if you can. The Key
references in brown will be referred to in the sessions and could also be researched
outside of the classroom.
It is expected that you will spend a minimum of 3 hours working on your investigations,
reading around Language Development topics and completing independent study
outside of the classroom each week.
USEFUL WEBSITES FOR REVISION AND INFORMATION:
www.aqa.org.uk (GCE/A LEVEL – ENGLISH LANG SPEC B)
www.universalteacher.org.uk
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Keep looking on the web and in the papers for interesting developments in the language
change debate! Continue to gather ideas in a data scrapbook. A range ideas and
arguments in your understanding of linguistic change will sustain your ability to deal with
the examination.
I’d strongly recommend that you try to get a copy of this book from
Amazon too!