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Wider reading

Wider reading https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/18/why-do-people-interrupt-it-depends-on-whom-youre-talking-to Katherine Hilton “What people perceive as an interruption varies systematically across different speakers and speech acts,” said Hilton, who is also a Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center . “Listeners’ own conversational styles influence whether they interpret simultaneous, overlapping talk as interruptive or cooperative. We all have different opinions about how a good conversation is supposed to go.” Hilton found that American English speakers have different conversational styles. She identified two distinct groups: high- and low-intensity speakers. High-intensity speakers are generally uncomfortable with moments of silence in conversation and consider talking at the same time a sign of engagement. Low-intensity speakers find simultaneous chatter to be rude and prefer people speak one at a time in conversatio...
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Michael Rosen

http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/ https://www.theguardian.com/profile/michaelrosen http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtnz Micheal Rosen- Word Of Mouth http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05077ks This episode of Word of Mouth is about Micheal Rosen and Professor Tanya Byron discussing how parents using language to talk to their children. They explore how the way parents talk to children, how its evolving and how this effects child language in the long term. The Linguist Dr. Laura Wright is introduced and she says that it looks as though we are moving towards a more casual and informal language. She also explains how she feels as though we feel  unauthorative when making commands through speech and discusses how this idea relates to a 'friend-parent' relationship to children rather than a 'parent parent' relationship. -'No' unhelpful principal.  Michael Rosen- 'positive reinforcement' in language to encourage children rather than put them down. Say...
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Language Change

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/radio4/transcripts/1996_reith1.pdf http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gx2dt http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9137930/Meaning-of-literally-shrinking-away.html http://users.ox.ac.uk/~aitchiso/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gmvwx http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/radio4/transcripts/1996_reith1.pdf Sample from Jean Aitchinson Is our language sick? You might think so, judging from complaints in newspapers: “The standard of speech and pronunciation in England has declined so much . . . that one is almost ashamed to let foreigners hear it.” “The language the world is crying out to learn is diseased in its own country.” “We are plagued with idiots on radio and television who speak English like the dregs of humanity, to the detriment of our children.” But why? At a time when English is a major world language, is it really in need of hospital treatment? A wide web of worries; a cobweb o...
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Notes on Child Acquisition

Useful links https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word https://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i_W6Afed2k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElabA5YICsA http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098jjr4 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/09/children-madeup-words-first-language-creativity-vocabulary-parents-infants https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/14/talking-to-babies-brain-power-language https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/08/taalk-proper C.D.S-  Child directed speech  Chomsky and Nativism = Behaviourism  Chomsky doesn't believe CDS is significant Jerone Bruner and interactionism  L.A.S.S Skinner and Bruner believe CDS is significant Positive/ negative reinforcement Phonology- O.T.T intonation- sing song -O.T.T non verbal communication -repeat whats been said? NATURE VS NUTURE born with language or taught it? Deb roy Cognitive scientist...
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Year 2

Useful Links http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/english/as-and-a-level/english-language-7701-7702 AQA home page http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-77021-SQP.PDF Exam Paper 1 http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-77021-SIN.PDF Exam Paper 1 Insert http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-77021-SIN.PDF Exam Paper 1 Mark Scheme http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-77022-SQP.PDF Exam Paper 2 http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-77022-SIN.PDF Exam Paper 2 Insert http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/english/AQA-77022-SMS.PDF Language Investigation http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/entertainment/how-well-do-you-know-your-grammar-a6802681.html http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/can-you-pass-year-six-52615 https://www.theguardian.com/quiz/questions/0,5961,211620,00.html https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/aug/16/mind-your-language-apostrophe https://www.theguardia...
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Ocupational Lexis Articles

Helpful brief link- http://universalteacher.org.uk/lang/occupation.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-14653080 This is a Scottish article which is about 'Solutionising' business jargons- informative article. Gillian Sharpe, who is the writer of the article says that the language of business - and more particularly when it descends into jargon - is often the stuff of humour. Here are some examples "low-hanging fruit" (an easy, achievable goal), "shoot the puppy" (do the unthinkable) or perhaps "think outside the box" (be creative). Common examples of jargon Thinking outside the box Touch base Going forward Blue sky thinking Downsizing Ducks in a row Thought shower 360ยบ thinking The article also says: "And that's what happens in business with business writing - people put on that equivalent of the posh telephone voice. "They think it does them good - actually it makes ...
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