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Foundations: integrated language and literature methods

4 dot points across 4 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

What are the language levels, and how do you apply them to literary texts (poems, plays, prose) as well as non-fiction, so that linguistic precision sharpens literary analysis?

The language levels toolkit (lexis, grammar, phonology and prosody, pragmatics, discourse, graphology) applied to literary texts: using linguistic precision to sharpen analysis of poetry, drama and prose, not only non-fiction (AO1 feeding AO2).
How to apply the language levels (lexis, grammar, phonology and prosody, pragmatics, discourse, graphology) to literary texts as well as non-fiction in OCR A-Level English Language and Literature (H474): using linguistic precision to sharpen literary analysis of poems, plays and prose, the AO1 toolkit that feeds AO2.
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What do mode, context and representation mean in integrated study, and how do you read them into a text so that AO3 is analysis rather than background?

Mode, context and representation: mode as a spoken-written continuum, context as production and reception (AO3), and representation as the constructed version a text builds of people, events and ideas, read into the language rather than written as separate background.
How mode, context and representation work in OCR A-Level English Language and Literature (H474): mode as a spoken-written continuum, context as production and reception (AO3), and representation as the constructed version a text builds, all read into the language rather than written as detachable background.
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What are the five assessment objectives in OCR H474, what does each reward, and how are they weighted and distributed across the four components?

The five assessment objectives (AO1 to AO5) for H474: what each rewards (integrated method, shaping of meaning, context, connections across texts, creative production), their headline weightings, and which components and tasks assess which objectives.
What the five assessment objectives reward in OCR A-Level English Language and Literature (H474): AO1 integrated method, AO2 shaping of meaning, AO3 context, AO4 connections across texts, AO5 creative production, with their weightings and how they map onto the four components and tasks.
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What does it mean to analyse a text with an integrated linguistic-literary method, and how do you fuse language and literature in a single point rather than handling them separately?

The integrated method (the spine of H474): reading every text with the tools of both English Language and English Literature at once, so a single analytical point moves from a precise language-level observation to its literary and contextual effect (AO1, AO2, AO3 fused).
How the integrated method works in OCR A-Level English Language and Literature (H474): reading every text with the tools of English Language and English Literature together, so one analytical point fuses a precise language observation (AO1) with how meaning is shaped (AO2) and context (AO3), rather than keeping language and literature in separate paragraphs.
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