Child Language Development Reading, Writing and Speaking Notes for new AQA English Language A Level (2018 onwards) Contains everything needed to know about CLD (plus some interesting extras) Topics covered: Language aquisition theories -> Skinner ->Chomsky -> Lenneberg -> Piaget -> Bruner -> Vygotsky -> Tomasello -> Ibbotson -> Peccei -> Garvey -> Ervin-Tripp Speaking Phonological development -> Baby phonological stages -> Early sounding mistakes -> Berko and /brown Lexical and semantic development -> Katherine Nelson -> Elizabeth Spelke -> Leslie Rescorla -> Thomson and Chapman -> Jean Aitchison Grammatical development (syntax and morphology) -> Grammatical stages -> Brown -> Brain -> Bellugi Pragmatic development -> MAK Halliday Discourse development -> Berko -> Brown Child directed speech Case Studies -> Jim- De Villiers and De Villiers -> Genie Reading/ Writing Labov’s Narrative Structure Models of Children’s Literacy Stages of learning to read -> Chall -> Harris and Coltheart -Miscue analysis and emergent literacy -> Goodman Stages of Writing -> Kroll -> Barclay -> Anon Types of writing -> Rothery -> Britton Approaches to teaching reading Creative VS Rule Based Model Traditional VS Functional Approach -Learning to Spell -> S R Gentry -Other ->Lyle ->Grant ->Hepplewhite -> Crystal’s Skills -> Perera -> Shirley Brice Health -> Stanovich

Notes on La Casa de Bernarda Alba for Spanish A Level Literature paper Includes: General summary Detailed summary of each act Structure of the play Context Introduction ideas Character information Themes Garcia Lorca’s style A critical overview The use of simbolism Information about character speech styles and Lorcas poetic /prose style Quotations Please note this is written in a mixture of spanish and english

Volver (2006) by Pedro Almódovar Notes for Spanish A Level Literature paper Includes: Fact sheet About Almódovar About La Mancha Melodrama and neorealism Genre and taboos The title ‘Volver’ The song Modern Madrid and Rural La Mancha Use of colour The opening scene The theme of women The Script Vocabulary Please note it is written in spanish and english