Glossary: Spoken Language Devices
This project provides us with an opportunity to explore our own unique spoken language and the way it communicates volumes about our age, nature, culture, and character. We will be comparing spoken language with the langue of text messaging, bbm and online chat. The variety and creativity of the South London youth dialect is one of the most fast moving and expressive I have ever come across and it represents a brilliant opportunity...
HOMEWORK: Analytical Paragraph
Today we annotated samples of your own text language, using the terms and devices listed here. We identified that, while the main purpose of the modifications to standard English in text communication is to aid brevity (to make communication quicker by having to type less) there was also some subsidiary benefits due to the development of a particular tone in the communication. We agreed that you could tell some things about people...
HOMEWORK: Transcribe your own conversation
Today we explored the technical terms that define the non-standard English that is a big part of text and instant messaging communication. Attached to this – and to assist with your homework – is today’s annotated example from the board and also a glossary of terms that are useful when analysing text-speak. HOMEWORK: Transcribe one of your own text conversations and annotate it using the terms we explored in class...
Spoken Language Study: Day One
The Way We Talk The first GCSE assessment of your school careers happens this term. It is the Spoken Language study, which is 10% of your English Language GCSE. Much more information will follow explaining the specific requirements of this assessment, but at the moment all you need to know is that it deals with the way we speak and communicate with each other in everyday situations. Today I wrote what would be a typical text message...
Find your Voice
Welcome to your new Year 10 class. Your first GCSE year can be daunting, learning has quite suddenly got very ‘real’ and a lot of what you do in class, and the assessments that you sit, may echo through future years in your life – but at the same time Year 10 English is a fascinating, academically challenging and mature programme of Learning. Choosing Find Your Voice as your English programme for Year 10 means that,...
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