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Audience, Purpose, Genre, Mode, Register
Discourse event,
Text producer,
Text receiver
23  cards
Language Diversity) Lamguage And Power
Difference in influential and ins...,
Types of power 2 who thought thes...,
Other types of power 3 explain wh...
12  cards
Language Diversity) Lamguage And Social Class
Sociolect,
Overt prestige,
Covert prestige
28  cards
Language Diversity) Language And Ethnicity
Isajiw stidy,
Whos was the study on defining et...,
Essentialist view
19  cards
Language Diversity) Language And Age
Sociolect,
Convergence,
Divergence eg
29  cards
Language Diversity) Phonological Variations
How much of the british populatio...,
Rp is associated with,
Evidence for rp having less power...
3  cards
Language Diversity) Grammatical Variation
Where is replacement of was and w...,
Explain petyt s 1985 study,
Who s study is dialect and accent...
6  cards
Language Diversity) Lexical Variations
Examples of lexical variation,
How does cockney rhyming slang wo...,
Where did cockney rhyming slang o...
18  cards
Language Diversity) Geographical Varieties Of English
Dialect eg,
Idiomatic phrases definition,
Social mobility definition
4  cards
Language Diversity) intro
What influences way we speak,
Explain labov s study,
Who thought up martha s vineyard ...
7  cards
Meanings And Representations) Meanings And Representations
Hegemony,
How do dominant groups in society...,
Example of hegemony
9  cards
Meanings And Representations) Lexis And Semantics
Types of nouns 3,
Types of verbs 4,
Types of adjectives and adverbs m 3
80  cards
Meanings And Representations) Grammar
Noun clauses 2 eg,
Adverbial clauses,
Comparative clauses eg
19  cards
Meanings And Representations) Essay Framework
Phonetics phonology and prosodics,
Graphology,
Lexis and semantics
7  cards
Meanings And Representations) Audience, Purpose, Genre, Mode
Discourse event,
Text producer,
Text receiver
18  cards
Child Language) Spelling
Insertion,
Omission,
Substitution
7  cards
Child Language) Writing And Literacy Debate
When does writing begin,
4 approaches to writing and liter...,
Traditional approach linear model
11  cards
Child Language) Literacy Techniques
Chali s 6 stages of learning to read,
Pre reading and pseudo reading 0 5,
Initial reading and decoding 5 7
6  cards
Child Language) Is CDS Good For Development
Yes,
No,
Nature
44  cards
Child Language) CDS
Features of cds,
Phonology,
Lexis and semantics
13  cards
Child Language) Grammatical Development
Why s grammar hard to learn 4,
Types of determiners,
Virtuous errors
6  cards
Child Language) Phonological Development
Ways children will simplify their...,
Features of deletion,
Consonant clusters
14  cards
Child Language) Pramatic Development
Halliday s functions of language,
Instrumental,
Regulatory eg
8  cards
Child Language) Phonological Development
Pre birth stage,
Pre verbal stage,
1 word holophrastic stage
9  cards
Language Change) World English
Elf,
Elf refers to mostly languages fr...,
Jenkins points to 5 key character...
16  cards
Language Change) Prescriptivism Vs Descriptivism
Metaphors about language change,
Prescriptivism,
Descriptivism
21  cards
Language Change - Brief History Of The English Language
Diachronic change,
Synchronic change,
Features of old english
7  cards
Language Change) Grammar
Grammatical change,
Examples of grammatical change,
What lead to attention towards gr...
7  cards
Language Change) Orthography
Orthography,
Reasons for abolishing apostrophe,
Reasons for keeping the apostrophe
12  cards
Language Change) Semantic Change
Semantic change,
Neosemy,
Processes of semantic change
13  cards
Language Change) How Does Language Change
Diachronic,
Synchronic,
Difference between prescriptivist...
26  cards
Language Change) Phonology
Phonology,
Examples of phonological change,
Assimilation
21  cards
Language Change) Lexical Change
What s lexical change,
Neologism,
Archaisms
24  cards
2.4.1 Orthography
Errors children make when writing,
Read states that,
Ferreiro thinks that
9  cards
3.6.1 Old English
What century was old english
1  cards
Grammatical Change
Grammatical changes occur more _ ...,
Examples of grammatical change,
Example of double negations
11  cards
3.5.5 Semantic Change
Neosemic meaning,
Prejorated,
Narrowed
9  cards
3.5.4 Lexical Change
Types of lexical change 2,
Types of lexical change,
Blending
24  cards
2.4.6 The Exam
0  cards
2.4.4 Creativity Vs Accuracy
0  cards
2.4.5 Other Writing Theories
0  cards
2.4.3 Barclay's Theory
0  cards
2.4.2 Kroll's Theory
0  cards
2.4.1 Orthography
Orthographic errors 3,
Substitution,
Omission
16  cards
2.2.5 Nativism - Exam Answer
Within this theory _ states that ...
1  cards
2.3.5 Other Reading Theories
Describe clay s theory,
Who theory can you link clay s to,
Describe perfetti s theory
5  cards
2.3.4 Modelling Reading Acquisition
Stages of frith s model 3,
Orthographic stage,
Logographic stage
17  cards
2.3.3 Debates In Reading
Traditional view bottom up approach,
What does dole et al believe,
Nunan believes
14  cards
2.3.2 Phonics Vs Whole World
The phonics approach is all about,
Issues with phonetic approach,
What s phoneme grapheme corresspo...
9  cards
2.2.8 Writing About Spoken Acquisition
Difference between good and bad e...
1  cards
2.2.7 Social Constructionism
Social constructionists believe c...,
Social constructionism was first ...,
Tomasello s theory states childre...
11  cards
2.2.6 Cognitivism
Cognitive theory states that,
What does piaget s theory state,
What s supports piaget s theory
10  cards
2.2.4 Nativism
Who developed of the nativism theory,
Is chomsky nature or nurture,
Chomsky s theory states
14  cards
2.2.1 Behaviourism
Theory of behaviourism is often c...,
_ says a child learns language ba...,
What s positive reinforcement
5  cards
2.2.2 Interactionism
What do interactionalists believe,
Do interactionalists argue for na...,
What s child directed speech cds
28  cards
2.2.3 Challenging Interactionism
What do de villiers and de de vil...,
Myzor believes,
What did cliff pye research
7  cards
2.1.8 Stages Of Development
What are the stages of development,
What s the holophrastic stage,
When does the holophrastic stage ...
9  cards
2.1.7 Lexical Development
What was gervains test in _,
What does gervains study not explain,
What does david crystal argue
5  cards
2.1.6 Beginning Stages Of Languague
What does m a k halliday s theory...,
What are the child s 7 main funct...,
Instrumental meaning
15  cards
1.5.2 Graphology And Orthography
Graphology,
Orthography
2  cards
1.5.1 Discourse Structure
Anaphoric reference eg,
Cataphoric reference eg
2  cards
1.4.2 Pragmatics
Deictic reference,
Denotation,
Connotation
3  cards
1.4.1 Semantics
Semantic field,
Collocation,
Patterns in texts
7  cards
1.3.6 Future Tense
Future progressive tense eg,
Simple future tense eg,
Future present tense eg
5  cards
1.3.5 Past Tense
Simple past,
Past progressive eg,
Past perfect eg
5  cards
1.3.4 Present Tense
0  cards
1.3.3 + 1.3.4 Phrases + present tense
Noun phrase,
Verb phrase,
Types of phrases 2
10  cards
1.3.2 Clauses
Minor sentence,
Simple sentence eg,
Compound sentence eg
8  cards
1.3.1 Morphology
Morpheme,
Types of morphemes,
Free morpheme eg
4  cards
1.2.14 Symptons, Antonyms And Phonological Features
Homophones eg,
Holographs eg,
Homonyms eg
3  cards
1.2.13 Conjunctions
Conjunctions,
Types of conjunctions 2,
Coordinating conjunctions
5  cards
1.2.12 Dererminers
Definite article,
Indefinite article,
Type of articles
6  cards
1.2.11 Relative Anf Demonstrative Pronouns
Relative pronouns,
Demonstrative pronouns eg
2  cards
1.2.10 Personal, Possessive And Reflexive Pronouns
Types of pronouns 3
1  cards
1.2.9 Adverbs
4 different categories of adverbs...,
Place eg,
Manner eg
5  cards
1.2.8 Mood Of Verbs
What s the imperative mood,
List of verb moods 4,
Indicative mood eg
6  cards
1.2.7 Transitive, Intransitive, Active And Passive Verbs
Transitive verbs,
Intransitive verbs,
Active voice verb
4  cards
1.2.6 Dynamic And Stative Verbs
Dynamic verbs,
Material verbs,
Verbal verbs
8  cards
1.2.4 + 1.2.5 Adjectives + main, auxiliary and copular verbs
Base adjectives,
Comparative adjectives,
Superlative adjectives
7  cards
1.2.3 Collective Nouns
Collective noun eg
1  cards
1.2.2 Common, Poper, Abstract And Concrete Nouns
Common noun,
Proper noun,
Concrete noun
4  cards
1.2.1 Introduction
Lexeme,
Lexicon,
Lexis
3  cards
1.1.1 Assessment Objectives
Assessment objectives ao1,
Assessment objectives ao2,
Assessment objectives ao3
5  cards
2.1.5 A Child's First Year & Consonant Acquisition
In 1988 mehler found,
How old can foetus hear sounds,
What stage do children go through...
5  cards
2.1.4 Phonological Simplification
What techniques are used by child...,
What s addition,
What s deletion
9  cards
2.1.3 Writing About Phonemes
When writing about phonemes how a...
1  cards
2.1.2 - Phonology
What s phonology,
What s acquisition,
How many phonemes are there
25  cards
2.1.1 The Exam
What s in ao2,
What s in ao1
2  cards
Language Change - Lexical Change
Name all lexical processes 6,
Borrowing off loan words definiti...,
Compounding definition and example
12  cards
Child Language Acquisition
Word class children usually first...,
Many early words are related to,
Some early words are clearly
68  cards
Textual Variation And Representation
Language frameworks 6,
Main grammar features,
Main pragmatics features
4  cards
Pragmatics
_ factors are an important part o...,
Pragmatics,
Semantics
38  cards
Lexis And Semantics
Dynamic verbs are,
Stative verbs are,
Types of dynamic verbs 2
60  cards

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