A Level English Language Social Variation - Age and Social Groups Theories

Fully resourced scheme of work for A Level AQA English Language Social Variation

Age Theories
Social Groups Theores

**8 lessons of powerpoints with tasks on the powerpoints. **:

Lesson 1 - Intro to Social Variation: idolect/sociolect

Lesson 2 - How does age affect language use? Theories of age.

Lesson 3 - Slang / Michael Rosen Podcast / Jonathan Green’s ideas of slang

Lesson 4 - Slang / Stenström’s Teenage Talk / Research into slang usage / Ives / Teenspeak and textspeak

Lesson 5 - Defining age - Eckert and Chesire’s ideas / AO2 critiquing studies

Lesson 6 - Multi-Modal Language / Textspeak & teenspeak / Is text speak killing language? Ted Talk from John McWhorter / Thurlow’s Sociolinguistic Maxims (2003)

Lesson 7 - Jenny Chesire’s Reading study / AO2: Evaluate and Critique skills

Lesson 8 - Jocks and Burnouts - Eckert’s study / AO2: Evaluate and Critique skills / Copeland’s code-switching.

Also includes many example A Level questions.

Very helpful for A Level English Language teachers or students.