Eduqas A-Level English Language: Component 1 Language Concepts and Issues overview quiz quiz

A single written advertisement aimed at a mass consumer audience

A historical literary text first published at some point before 1700

At least two transcriptions of real spoken language

Your own original creative writing produced under timed conditions

Poetry, prose, drama and unseen texts, each studied through close reading and analysis

Lexis, grammar, phonology and pragmatics, each treated as a wholly separate descriptive level of language

Spelling, punctuation, grammar and vocabulary, examined for technical accuracy across the answers

Standard and non-standard English, language and power, language and situation, language acquisition

The transcript's notation (timed pauses, stress, intonation, overlaps), because it is the data

The very last line of the transcript first, then work backwards from there to the opening

Nothing in particular; you simply read straight through it once and then summarise the gist of the content

Only the names of the speakers, since who is talking matters far more than how they talk

They are always deliberate jokes the speaker has consciously planned in advance

They are normal, functional features of spontaneous speech, not mistakes

They never genuinely appear in any properly prepared and edited transcript

They are simply spelling errors made when the speech was written down by hand

AO5, the creativity and expertise objective in original writing

AO4, the objective rewarding connections drawn across texts

AO2, critical understanding of concepts and issues

There is no dominant objective; all carry equal weight here

There is no real difference between the two; both simply set out everything the candidate knows about the topic

Surveying a topic broadly actually scores higher, because it clearly demonstrates the full breadth of the candidate's knowledge of the subject

Arguing a case just means writing a greater number of words and covering more ground than a survey would manage to

Arguing takes a position and builds it with evidence and a counter-view; surveying lists facts with no line of argument

Accent is pronunciation; dialect is the lexis and grammar of a regional or social variety

They are simply two interchangeable names for the same regional way of speaking English

Accent is a feature of written language only, whereas dialect is a feature of spoken language

Accent is always formal and prestigious, whereas dialect is always informal and non-standard

A type of artificial intelligence system used to automatically generate personalised marketing copy for each individual reader

Constructing a fake personal relationship with a mass audience through direct address and inclusive pronouns

A standardised spelling system imposed across a language to make written texts feel more personal

A distinctive regional accent that listeners associate with friendliness and a personal manner

Past, present and future

Subject, verb and object

Field, tenor and mode

Lexis, grammar and phonology

A spelling mistake that the child has simply copied straight from the adults around them while first learning how to write

A particular word that the child stubbornly refuses to say aloud even though they clearly understand it well

An error that in practice never actually occurs in real recorded samples of young children's spontaneous speech

An over-application of a grammatical rule (e.g. 'goed'), which cannot be imitation and supports the nativist view

You answer one essay from a choice of three and cannot predict which topics will appear or how they will be phrased

It is a strict formal requirement of the specification, and you simply cannot pass the component at all without preparing every single one

All four of the language issues topics are always examined together within a single combined essay question

Preparing all four topics in advance is the single fastest way to save yourself time during the exam itself

Graphology and visual layout, since the way the transcript is presented on the page matters most

Discourse, pragmatics and phonology/prosody, tied to the dynamics of the interaction

Only spelling and punctuation, treating the transcript as though it were a piece of written prose

None of the language frameworks; you simply summarise what the speakers say in your own words