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CCEA GCSE English Language Unit 3: studying spoken and written language overview quiz quiz

16questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What is the weighting and assessment type of Unit 3?

  2. What two analytical tasks make up Unit 3?

  3. What does the study of spoken language mainly analyse?

  4. What are the three main influences on how someone speaks?

  5. Why do fillers and false starts appear in spontaneous speech?

  6. Which is an example of elision?

  7. What do overlaps and interruptions reveal in a transcript?

  8. What is the difference between accent and dialect?

  9. What is an idiolect?

  10. How should non-standard English be treated in the analysis?

  11. How should attitudes to accent and dialect be handled?

  12. What is a multimodal text?

  13. How should language and presentation be analysed in a media text?

  14. Why select a few pieces of evidence rather than quoting everything?

  15. Which assessment objectives apply to the Unit 3 write-up?

  16. What is the recurring failure in Unit 3 responses?