Department Resources

You might find it useful to look at the department Pinterest site for useful links for all units of A Level Literature and A Level Language. We upload student videos to our woodhouseenglish youtube channel. You can view them here. If you have difficulty viewing the youtube videos sign in to as username woodhouseenglish@gmail.com and the password is wilfredowen

Very interesting series of short videos on Language Acquisition

Watch some of these videos exploring language acquisition. Robert Winstone in the BBC series The Human Body explores how children gain the ability to speak. Other videos support Chomsky's views on universal language showing similarities between spoken english and japanese. Finally, somebody has posted the sad story of Genie, the feral child who grew up in the woods and who did have any contact with humans. This allowed for studies to test the theories of behavourist and nativist ideas of language acquisition.

What are the differences between school and university?

It won't be long before you are deciding on your 5 university places. Thinking of studying English? What expectations do you have of university? How is it different? This video lecture from Leeds University gives you some useful insight. It is one of two videos here.

Introduction to Shakespeare's texts Video Lecture

Great initial university lecture introducing Shakespeare's texts.Here

Video Lectures on Turn of The Screw

Here is the first video lecture on The Turn of The Screw by The English Faculty. Find more on their site here.

Video lectures on John Keats' Odes

Leeds university The English Faculty have produced a series of video lectures on Keats' odes. This is one of three. You can find the lecture here. The site also has interesting videos on studying English at university and finding jobs.

The New York Times resources on The Great Gatsby

For those of you studying The Great Gatsby for coursework you will find The New York Times a rich area of study. Find plenty of background criticism and contexts here. It even has the mansion that inspired the Fitzgerald to write the book.

The British Library Language Change site

The British Library is a great site for exploring Language Change. Here you will find interesting texts from the past which may be useful for language investigations. British Library Language Change

New English Department Blog

We are hoping to use this blog for both Literature and Language students. We will post things relevant to your courses here but also check our twitter site on engwoodhouse. Here is a very useful series of video podcasts on The Great Gatsby from SCCEnglish. http://www.sccenglish.ie/search/label/Gatsby%20ShowMe