Eduqas A-Level English Language: the linguistic frameworks toolkit overview quiz quiz

Lexis, grammar and accurate spelling, and nothing else at all besides these three

Reading, writing, speaking and listening, taken together as the four core communication skills of the whole A-Level course

Lexis and semantics; grammar; phonetics, phonology and prosody; pragmatics; discourse; graphology and multimodality

Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, the main word classes of English grammar

Offering an unsupported personal opinion about the meaning of the text

Memorising the whole of the text accurately

Original and imaginative creative writing

Applying methods of language analysis and using accurate terminology

Analysing and evaluating how contextual factors and language features construct meaning

Naming and labelling as many separate language features as you possibly can

Producing correct spelling and accurate punctuation consistently throughout the whole of the answer only

Comparing the two unseen texts

It is simply factually wrong about the language feature

It supplies AO1 but not AO3; the marks need the move from feature to effect

It uses up far too much valuable space on the page

Language features should in fact never be named at all anywhere in the answer

They are simply two names for the same thing

Semantics is concerned with speech sounds, while pragmatics is concerned with correct spelling

Semantics is literal meaning; pragmatics is implied, context-dependent meaning

Semantics applies only to spoken language, while pragmatics applies only to written language

Uses a single very long and complex sentence

Speaks throughout the conversation with a strongly marked and very noticeable regional accent

Chooses to use unusually formal vocabulary

Obviously flouts one of Grice's maxims, prompting the hearer to infer an unstated meaning

Omit or background the agent of an action, which can conceal responsibility

Make every single sentence considerably longer for no real or useful purpose at all

Add a great many more descriptive adjectives

Change the topic of the whole text

Graphology and the overall visual layout of the printed text on the page in front of you

Phonology and prosody, discourse and pragmatics, tied to the dynamics of the interaction

Only the lexis of the speakers

Correct spelling and neat handwriting throughout

A particular type of complex sentence; it belongs to grammar

A distinctive individual speech sound; it belongs to phonology

The way a caption fixes the meaning of an image; graphology and multimodality

A connected group of words drawn from one single semantic field; it belongs to lexis

They are completely identical in meaning

Accent only ever applies to written language; dialect only ever applies to spoken language

Accent is concerned with word meaning, while dialect is concerned only with speech sounds

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

Which speaker is managing the interaction and often holds power

Nothing whatever of any genuine analytical interest at all

That the transcript itself must have been recorded inaccurately

The approximate age of each of the speakers involved

It is strictly against the formal rules of the examination

Coverage is not the goal; strong analysis selects the frameworks that do the most meaningful work in the text

Six separate points is always far too many for one answer

Only one single language framework is ever genuinely relevant to any given unseen text anywhere in the whole exam