AQA A-Level English Language Text Analysis Notes
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- Created on: 08-09-19 20:00
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Assessment Objectives, Method for Analysis, Language Levels & Word Classes
AO1: Apply appropriate methods of language analysis, using associated terminology and coherent written expression
- Needed in both papers
- When evaluating a text or data, I need to make sure I use terminology
- Everything needs to be clear and make sense
AO2: Demonstrate critical understanding of concepts and issues relevant to language use
- Needed in both papers
- Show I understand the ideas and concepts of the terminology I have used
- Give a definition
- Challenge this definition (strengths but mainly weaknesses of it)
AO3: Analyse and evaluate how contextual factors and language features are associated with the construction of meaning
- Needed in both papers
- Consider context in my analysis and say how it relates to these theories/ terminology
- Acknowledge the meaning of a text or utterance depends on the context
AO4: Explore connections across texts, informed by linguistic concepts and methods
- Needed in both papers
- Compare how texts use language
- Show similarities and differences and give reasons for this
AO5: Demonstrate expertise and creativity in the use of English to communicate in different ways
- Needed only in paper 2 (language diversity and change)
- Devise solutions to problems
Things to consider in an essay
Genre:
- Type of text: Letter, novel, transcript, newspaper, website, leaflet
- There can be intertextuality (a process where texts borrow from or refer to conventions of other texts for a specific purpose and effect
Register:
- How formal?
- Register is assessed using situational characteristics (a key characteristic of the time, place and contexts in which communication takes place)
Audience:
- Women, adults, children, religion, occupation
- Who is the text producer?
- Who is the text receiver?
- Often text producers have an implied reader (constructed…
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