Unit 2 Language Issues and Original and Critical Writing overview quiz - WJEC A-Level English Language quiz

2 hours

1 hour 30 minutes

1 hour

3 hours

Reading, writing and speaking

Language issues, original writing and critical writing

Analysing language, contemporary English and spoken language

Language over time, gender and power

No choice; all questions are compulsory

You choose three of six tasks

You choose to answer either Question 1 or Question 2

You write on any topic you like

Because it is spoken by everyone

Because it is older than other dialects

Because it has no grammar rules

Because it is the socially valued variety of education and print, while other dialects are equally rule-governed

The hidden social value of non-standard forms that signal in-group identity and solidarity

The prestige of received pronunciation

The prestige of written English

A type of grammatical error

Instrumental power persuades; influential power is enforced by a role

Instrumental power is enforced through a role or institution; influential power persuades

They are the same thing

Both apply only to writing

Deborah Tannen

Noam Chomsky

Norman Fairclough

B. F. Skinner

The deficit view

The dominance view

The behaviourist view

The difference view (Deborah Tannen)

A child's error that shows a rule being over-applied, such as 'goed' for 'went'

A spelling mistake in an essay

A deliberate joke

An error only adults make

Cause, consequence, change and continuity

Genre, audience, purpose and mode

Subject, verb, object and clause

Past, present, future and conditional

Narrate the order in which you wrote the piece

Avoid quoting your own writing

Analyse your choices and their effects, not the writing process

List as many devices as possible

Claim, claim, claim

Introduction, body, conclusion

Who, what, when, where

Choice, evidence, effect, frame

Defining terms, using concepts and data, and reaching a clear judgement

Summarising both sides without deciding

Naming as many theorists as possible

Avoiding the provided data

The length of a text

The level of formality and kind of language appropriate to the situation

A type of punctuation

The number of paragraphs

Because part (c) is marked first

Because the two parts are about different texts

Because you analyse your own part (b) piece, so deliberate choices give the commentary real craft to explain

Because the commentary is optional