English Language study guides

A deep-dive AQA A-Level English Language guide to children's language development. Covers spoken language stages, the theories of acquisition (Skinner, Chomsky, Piaget, Bruner and Vygotsky), written language development and reading development, with the terminology and theorists AQA expects.

A deep-dive AQA A-Level English Language guide to language diversity and change. Covers social and regional variation, language and occupation, language change over time, attitudes to diversity and the named theories of how change spreads, with the theorists AQA expects you to apply.

A deep-dive AQA A-Level English Language guide to the non-exam assessment: language in action. Covers planning a language investigation, methods of language analysis, writing for an audience and the original writing and commentary, with the structure, word counts and assessment focus AQA expects.

A deep-dive AQA A-Level English Language guide to the language levels and methods of analysis. Covers phonetics and phonology, lexis and semantics, grammar and morphology, pragmatics, discourse and graphology as the toolkit underpinning every textual analysis on the course.

A deep-dive AQA A-Level English Language guide to language, gender, power and the individual. Covers the gender models (deficit, dominance and difference), language and power, language and social groups, and language and the self, with the theorists AQA expects you to apply and evaluate.