English Language study guides

A deep-dive Edexcel A-Level English Language (9EN0) guide to analysis and investigation. Covers the methods of language analysis (the language levels), the coursework language investigation, original writing and commentary, and exam text analysis, with the skills and frameworks Edexcel expects.

A deep-dive Edexcel A-Level English Language (9EN0) guide to child language development. Covers spoken language acquisition stages, written language development (Kroll and reading), and the theories of acquisition (Skinner, Chomsky, Piaget, Bruner and Vygotsky), with the terminology and theorists Edexcel expects.

A deep-dive Edexcel A-Level English Language (9EN0) guide to language change. Covers historical change at every level, attitudes to change (Aitchison's metaphors, Crystal, prescriptivism versus descriptivism), and the theories and processes of change (wave, S-curve, random fluctuation and word formation), with the theorists Edexcel expects.

A deep-dive Edexcel A-Level English Language (9EN0) guide to language variation. Covers idiolect and identity, social and regional variation (Labov, Trudgill, Milroy), language and gender, power and occupation (Lakoff, Tannen, Fairclough), and Standard versus non-standard English, with the theorists Edexcel expects.