The Module Includes the Following Lessons: Modes of address: Lexis and Semantics; Modes of address: Grammar and Graphology; Modes of address: Analysing spontaneous speech - phonetics, phonology and prosodics; and Modes of address: Pragmatics and discourse.
The Module Includes the Following Lessons: Variations in spoken, written and multi-modal texts; Representations - Texts in Time; Representations - Texts in Context; and Language, Power and Identity.
The Module Includes the Following Lessons: Sociolects - Social and Occupational groups; Sociolects - gender and ethnicity; Accents and Dialects - Regional varieties; and Global English - National and International varieties.
The Module Includes the Following Lessons: ‘Standard English’ : Caxton’s Eggs and historical attitudes; Attitudes to diversity and change - constructing identity; Attitudes to diversity and change - positioning and influencing the reader; and Attitudes to diversity and change - future discourses.
The Module Includes the Following Lessons: Identifying an investigation topic/research questions; Methodology: Data collection and language analysis - transcripts, content analysis and qualitative feedback; Evaluating findings; and Language concepts and writing up.
The Module Includes the Following Lessons: Functions of Children’s Language Us; Language Development: Phonology and Grammar; Language Development: Lexis, Semantics and Pragmatics; and Comparing development in spoken and written texts.
The Module Includes the Following Lessons: Genres of children’s speech and writing; Modes of communication - spoken, written and multi-modal texts; Theories of Children’s Language Development; and Researching Children’s Language Use.
The Module Includes the Following Lessons: Diachronic Change and Diversity: Language use from 1600 to present day; Processes of Diachronic Change; Synchronic Change and Diversity: The future of English?; and Evaluating language change in written texts and transcripts.
The Module Includes the Following Lessons: Using language data to evaluate diachronic change; Using language data to evaluate synchronic change; Attitudes to language change: Prescriptive models; and Attitudes to language change: Descriptive models.
The Module Includes the Following Lessons: Original Writing Option 1 - The Power of Persuasion; Original Writing Option 2 - The Power of Storytelling; Original Writing Option 3 - The Power of Information; and Producing an Evaluative commentary.