Homework: Mobility of Paralinguistic Features
In class today, everyone made a start on answering the following question. The homework is to complete this, on your personal blog, as a test of the swiftness of the response you will get from me to any work you do there. QUESTION: How do spoken language and text language influence each other? Make a statement Give examples Explain how your examples support your statement NAME the language features you’re using as...
First Analytical Writing
Today everyone had a go at writing a paragraph to explain a unique feature of spoken language from their own dialogues. Everyone made an excellent effort. After reading these in class we identified the the main areas for development. These were: Specific examples in the form of quotations were needed The examples needed to be examined in more detail, including identifying the language device within The social attitudes to the ways...
Spoken Language Role-Plays
The students have been exploring the ways different people and groups of people modify their use of language and the reasons they do this. Here are samples of the activities from the last couple of periods and information relating to tonight’s homework task....
