Language and Ethnicity A Level Unit

A 10 lesson unit comprising of a 68 slide PowerPoint, 9 different worksheets (including texts for analysis) exploring the topic of Language and Ethnicity and a summary terminology and theory sheet.

Each lesson includes a starting discussion prompt which acts as a learning objective, detailed notes on the theories and concepts listed below, a worksheet (with the exception of lesson nine) and activities, and a homework task. The following theories and concepts are covered:

• Idiolect, dialect, sociolect and ethnolect
• Pidgins and creoles
• Multicultural London English – Jenny Cheshire and Paul Kerswill (2011)
• Multicultural British English – Rob Drummond (2016)
• Black British English – Ife Thompson (2022)
• Code switching – Einar Haugen (1950s)
• Code mixing – Ronald Wardhaugh (1986)
• Types of Code Switching
• West Yorkshire Study - Gary Ives (2014)
• White talk Black talk - Roger Hewitt (1986)
• South London Study - Gary Ives (2014)
• Code Switching - Janet Holmes (2017)
• Language in a Black Community - Viv Edwards (1986)
• The objectification of ‘Jafaican’ - Paul Kerswill (2014)
• Ethnolects - Penelope Eckert (2008)
• Stylising the ‘roadman’ - Christian Ilbury (2023)
• Style-shifting in Multicultural London English - Oxbury and De Leeuw (2020)
• Phonetic variation and change in the Cockney Diaspora - Cole and Evans (2020)
• Style Repertoire and Social Change in British Asian English – Devyani Sharma (2011)
• Style variation – Devyani Sharma and Ben Rampton (2015)
• Aspects of identity in a second language – Gordon Drummond (2012)
• Language as a resistance identity – John Pitts (2012)
• Black/white borders through linguistic stylization – John Clark (2003)
• Style shifting and identity – Rusty Barrett (1994)
• Cultural appropriation in language – John McWhorter (2021)
• Language and ethnicity and identity – John Ogbu (1999)
• Linguistic Injustice – April Baker-Bell (2020)

There are some references to AQA-style A Level specification questions, but you can adapt these if needs be. These can be found on slides 57-65. Lesson 9 is based on an AQA A Level question.

The final lesson is a consolidation activity complete with guided revision cards. Alternatively, you could use an app such as Quizlet so that the students could produce digital revision resources.

Check out my other English Language A Level resources!

Language and Gender [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12983005]
Language and Region [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12973238]
Language and Power and Occupation [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12975755]
Language and Global and World Englishes [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12993850]
Language Change [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13003463]
Language and Technology [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13012666]
Language and Social Groups [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13024138]
Language Discourses… Coming soon!