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.

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.

Finding additional resources on itunesU

If you have an itunes account you will find a mass of university and media resources on your chosen texts for coursework and exams. ItunesU is the educational section of itunes and all of the resources are free. Radio programmes and university lectures and podcasts can be downloaded to your devices. A recent search found resources on: Emily Dickinson's Poetry, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe's Turn of the Screw, Gatsby, a mass of resources on Shakespeare, T S Eliot's The Wasteland, Chaucer's canterbury Tales. Additionally Language students will find items of interest on language and gender,technology,power, langugae acquisition and change.

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.