Teams L6 Language: Looking at the language in the media reporting on US protests then looking at a Lexis and Sentences question

What is Forensic Linguistics

Professor Tim Grant gives his inaugural lecture on how forensic linguistics helps to solve criminal cases

English Language videos made by our lower 6 students

1. The Adventures of English

2. Descriptivism versus Prescriptivism

3. English Open Day

English Language terminology videos

                                                    1 Representation in English Language

2. Language and Discourse

3. Pronouns made interesting

Nice video on the various accents around Britain

A2 Media Texts and Investigations

Hope you have been able to decide on your choice of language investigation. if you are still struggling may I suggest some of the following sites. Talkingpoint.org is very useful for child language acquisition with many examples of speech from different stages. The English Zone has a great A level language revision site with access to interesting videos, podcasts, theories and lectures on all aspects of the course. You can access Stephen Fry's radio programmes Fry's Language delight. The English Zone is linked under LANGUAGE SITES WE LIKE below right. Have you looked at Miss Wall's Pinterest site below? This weeks Word of Mouth was on language impairment. You might wish to search their archive on past programmes and you will find just what you need. The SFX Language blog (again below right) always updates on really interesting language related issues. Don't forget to search the emagazine archive for articles on your chosen area. The more you read the more you will be able to refine your focus of study. see you all Monday.

OED Online. You will want this for investigations

Get the OED online access. Thanks to Nevins English Language blog for this. This is really easy, and it is free! 1. Get a library card from your local library(but not now Friern Barnet Library) 2. Click on this link here. 3. Click on the 'Sign in' tab on the top right hand corner 4. Enter your library card number - it will have a letter at the start, and then have 8 numbers. Older cards have a letter, then 10 numbers - so just enter the letter then the first 8 numbers 5. Enjoy all the etymology you could ever need! Trust me, you'll be visiting this post again and again come investigation time.

A2 Language Change and Acquisition Revision

Here is a very useful summary of things to revise for both A2 Language Change and Acquisition. Key terminology, theorists, major developments etc. It comes from the Student Room here.

Language Investigations.

The Macmillan Dictionary Blog is a fantastic site which can give you ideas for your Language investigations. if you are interested in exploring the language of sport then look here. Type in a subject you are interested in and see what you find: Language in use, etymology, morphology.

Interesting Language Investigation

The end of the Olympics closing speeches would make interesting comparative studies for both A2 language investigations and for AS Language and Power. Boris Johnson's closing speech would make interesting comparison with David Cameron's speech at the same parade. Sebastian Coe's speech could be added to the mix. Find them below. Coe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3pyItoH58Y Cameron: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AOfpYcVOyY Johnson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57gg2sinGK0

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.

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